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

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

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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