Re: IIe double hires progs

[drsmooth@relex.com (Edhel Iaur)]

scraft@bigpapa.nothinbut.net () wrote:

>In article <50t6m6$jne@news.emi.com>, Edhel Iaur wrote:
>>spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector) wrote:

>>>    Personally I thought Prince of Persia was the best game 
>>>ever created on the 8-bit Apple II (Wings of Fury was another 
>>>great title, which incidentally, also used DHR for the title 
>>>screen but the actual game was HR).
>>
>>Don't forget: when a big explosion occurs, the screen flashes RED
>>(insert highly sarcastic "wow" here), a DHR color! :)

>Well, just to nitpick, for speed sake I assumed that is was flashing
>the lores screen, which has the same 16-color set as DHR.   I figure
>that it is easier to flip from HGR to GR and back faster than HGR
>to DHR (takes two pages).

Dang!  How come I didn't think of that!  Good thought.

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