Re: AppleColor 100 RGB monitor Questions

["Bryan Parkoff" <nospam@nospam.com>]

Tempest,

    Do game in monochrome really grayscale?  If it is true, I believe that 
all DHGR's 8th bit is set to true which it causes 7 bits to set colors to 
grayscale.  If it is false, 7 bits are set colors to 16 colors.

Bryan Parkoff

"Tempest" <tempest@atariprotos.com> wrote in message 
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>I have a quick question about the AppleColor 100 RGB monitor (the IIe
> RGB monitor, not the IIgs one).  The monitor works great, everything
> looks nice and clear (no color smearing or fringy edges).  However the
> monitor has some issues on certain programs, mostly games.  Some games
> like Airheart play in monochrome, while other games like Prince of
> Persia and Kings Bounty have some graphical distortion (the text on the
> title screen looks blurry for example). These aren't the normal
> Composite to RGB differences you see like when playing IIe games on a
> IIgs monitor, these are some serious video issues.
>
> Has anyone else had these problems? Is there a way to fix them?  I
> think someone once told me that it could be that some bit isn't being
> set properly by the game and the monitor is going into monochrome mode
> accidentally or that it was the mixed graphics/text mode that was
> causing the problem (mode 3 I believe).  If this is the case, would
> using a different interface card fix the problem?  I'm currently using
> the one that came with the monitor (the official one), but I think
> there are at least two other cards I can use with it.
>