Re: DHR Text Is Terrible!!!

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

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In article <40f0e5c3$3$82995$39cecf19@news.twtelecom.net>,
Bryan Parkoff <bryanparkoff@nospam.com> wrote:
>    Scott Alfter wrote DHR Character Generator program that it looks nasty.
>It is true that it is difficult to read in color, but it is much easier to
>read in monochrome.  In fact, Apple IIgs' RGB monitor looks readable in
>color than Apple //e + //c's NTSC monitor.  It would look terrible and
>unreadable in Kegs' Emulator, but it seems okay in Apple.Exe (MS-DOS).

Keep in mind that the IIGS allows for DHR to be displayed as either color or
monochrome.  Setting the display type in the Control Panel to "monochrome"
(where I usually have it, even though I have an RGB monitor) cleans it right
up.  You should've tried that before trash-talking other people's software.
:-P

An emulator that doesn't provide a means to switch between color and
monochrome display is broken.  Since I have plenty of real Apple IIs,
though, I don't have much need to keep up with emulators and their
capabilities.

(IIRC, the RGB cards that were available for the IIe treated the high bit of
each byte in a DHR display as a flag to display those bits as either
monochrome or color.  This is just something I think I read somewhere,
though; I don't have any direct experience with it, and I don't know how
exactly the high bit was interpreted (was 0 monochrome and 1 color, or was
it the other way around?).)

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