Re: best way to get a //c monitor cable?

["Ranando King" <rk@magictouchcorp.com>]

Small note of interest. Using a //e and an Extended 80column AppleColor card
in combination with the AppleColor RGB monitor would allow software control
over foreground and background colors per character. I don't remember all of
the details but I do remember that the color information was stored in Text
1X of aux memory. The high nibble controlled foreground color and the low
controlled background color. If someone has such a setup, I'd like to see if
it was just a peculiarity of my old Apple //e or if it really was a feature
of that card and monitor.

R. King

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Simon Williams wrote:
>
> >Roger Johnstone <rojaws@orcon.net.nz> wrote:
> >
> >> Several RGB cards for the Apple II could do that. They simply replaced
> >> the foreground and background colours when the Apple was in text mode.
> >> There was normally no software control but you could use switches on
the
> >> card to select the colours e.g. cyan text on a dark blue background was
> >> a favourite.
> >
> >Now that brings a question to mind... is it possible to change the text
> >colour by changing a ROM or something? I suppose it would only work with
> >non-Apple monitors, though...
>
> No.
>
> Text mode is a monochrome (no burst) mode, and the RGB
> cards that do the trick sense this and remap "black" and
> "white" to user-chosen colors on an RGB monitor.
>
> There is no corresponding trick on a composite monitor
> that would work for text (lots of isolated pixels).
>
> -michael
>
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