Re: A2 HTML viewer

["mdj" <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>]

Jorge ChB wrote:
> Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > I don't think I would class this as "much better" than Apple graphics,
> > particularly after the 6-color modification.
>
> Michael, believe me, that's because you've not been in front of it's
> crisp, colorful, beautiful display showing graphics *plus* colored 80
> columns text... And that price included the (huge) color display.
> Remember what was the price of color displays at that time ?
>
> The Apple II is not truly 140*192@6 colors, you know why.
> This one had a *true* 160*192@8 colors, *plus* 80 columns colored text.

The really impressive thing is when you look at just how few chips in
the Apple II were added to created the hires mode.

Of course, with a large engineering budget and a custom display, you
could do a lot better, even in 1977, but adding just a couple of
dollars worth of off-the-shelf components to a general purpose design
to achieve what the Apple II graphics achieved is an absolute work of
art, and a masterpiece of engineering.

Everyone says that Disk ][ was Woz's best feat, but to me, it's hard to
seperate it from the sheer elegance of that video generator. It's the
kind of thing that when learning digital electronics, you look at it
and go, "Wow".

Matt

Matt