Re: Hmm double HIRES graphics on the ][e

[Cyrus Roton <croton@ridgecrest.ca.us>]

On Wed, 31 May 1995, STEWART Benjamin Joseph - Benj wrote:

> I remembered a problem that I had as a 15 year old in trying to do some 
> programing on my ][e. In the documentation I had with my machine it said 
> that you can get double hires graphics. I'm not sure how it works, and I got 
> as far as entering the command `poke -16290,0' and then typing the HGR2 
> command. It worked... sort off, I got the double res. graphics, but there 
> was garbage all the way through the screen and you could only write onto 
> half of it using the old `hplot x,y to x1,y1'. Does anybody know what I can 
> do so as I can get the fully useable double HIRES graphics so I can tinker 
> once again with applesoft basic.
> 
Try ftp to grind.isca.uiowa.edu   and look under apple8/utils for the 
double hi-res ampersand stuff. If it is what I think it is, it should be 
what you need.

Cyrus Roton
Ridgecrest Apple User Group