Re: Why not color?

[salfter@salfter.diespammersdie.dyndns.org (Scott Alfter)]

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In article <89a856cc.0407090746.1e0d5ef0@posting.google.com>,
Derek E. <delse@comcast.net> wrote:
>My memory may be foggy on this, but weren't a lot of Double High Res
>programs in black and white?  Programs such as: MouseDesk (aka Apple
>II Desktop), MouseCalc, MultiScribe (aka BeagleWrite), etc.  Why
>didn't these use color?  Is Double High Res like Single High Res in
>that the colors bleed and so you get better "effective" resolution by
>not using color?

That's pretty much it...for the apps you named (along with others, such as
TimeOut Paint and PublishIt!), it was more useful to use DHR as a means to
get higher monochrome resolution than to get more colors.  That many
(most?) IIes and IIcs got sold with monochrome displays was more than likely
a factor as well.

I wrote a DHR character generator a while back that mimics nearly all
characteristics of the 80-column text display as graphics instead (the idea
being that you could then mix text and images wherever you want them on the
screen).  80-column text rendered as graphics would look pretty nasty on a
color display.

(If anybody's interested, the direct link to the character generator is
http://alfter.us/files/chargen.1.0.bxy.  More software I've written is at
http://alfter.us/a2soft.shtml.)

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