Re: Making the ][+ better

[ralfe.cookson@trw.com (Ralfe Cookson)]

robsgreenneon@startmail.ca (Rob Jones) wrote in message news:<bc4b97a8.0409280530.57ae44b0@posting.google.com>...

On the topic of HGR / HGR2, I remember back in the days of the Apple
][+ (1980's), there was a way to display the 16 LoRes (GR) colours in
> HiRes (HGR) mode. Anyone remember how this is done?

I seem to remember in Jim Sather's book "Understanding the Apple II"
there is a section showing how to mix lores colors with hires pixels.
One screen shot shows a series of vertical hires lines in lores colors
with the top half of each line in hires but with lores colors and the
bottom half in lores with the same color. I think you have to have
both the lores pixels and the hires pixels to get the hires pixels to
have the lores colors. Perhaps someone with acess to the book can
check the details.