Re: Crosspost: Did the cpu influence the display?

["Sam Gillett" <samgillettnospam@diespammermsn.com>]

"Peter van Merkerk" wrote ...

> Andrew Owen wrote:
>
>> Many mono displays were text only (which is very memory efficient). In
>> fact even on colour computers like the Commodore 64 there was usually a
>> mono text mode available.
>
> Corection: all text/graphics modes on the C64 support (more than two)
> colors.

Right.  The C64 has no true monochrome mode.  However, monochrome may be
simulated (or emulated) on any color system by using white text on a black
background, black on light gray, etc.

Or, in other words, selecting only black, white, or shades of gray for the
display make the it appear that monochrome is being used while the computer
is really in a color mode all along.

Note:  Some computers with color capabilities may have an actual monochrome 
mode available, but not the C64.
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Sam Gillett

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