KPR wrote:
I remember Graphical Apple BBS in the 80's running Pixterm written by Mathew Dornquast (aka Mini Appler / now just Matthew at code42 dot com ) I cant remember much more.. I tried contacting him a few months back.. he still has the program but no Apple to make images.. If memory servers me correct it did have different font sizes and worked with dhgr.. but I'm not sure on the dhgr.. it was 20 plus years since I seen it.. Anyone got a copy of pixterm bbs around???
And there were some programs that used HGR page flipping to produce the "vertically interlaced" equivalent of DHR before there was DHR. And a few used a 3x7 (+ 1 space column) to get 70 columns of somewhat readable text in HGR mode (Soft Seventy). There were some word processors (Word Handler comes to mind) that used the HGR screen to display about 60-70 proportionally spaced characters with optional bolding and underline. Higher Text and others (Apple Mechanic) used HGR mode and drew various fonts and colors--some using raster shapes and some using Apple shapes. So it *can* be done...several ways.
mdj wrote:Simon D. Williams wrote:I doubt it would be of much use really... just something to do ;-) I guess the advantage might be that 95% of html is irrelevant when you're dealing with a 80x24 text display with no font/style options to speak of... I'm pretty much just thinking it would be a way of adding hyperlinks to text documents and linking HGR files... needs some more thought, obviously ;-)Proportional rendering in DHR gives pretty good text space - 560 across is actually pretty good horizontal resolution. Matt
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