Re: Laser 128 - questions...

["M. Pender" <mpender@hotmail.com>]

On 4/13/04 9:41 PM, in article lk5p709ktk37aiq3rjqgfovsbs7d7a47ek@4ax.com,
"Jeff Blakeney" <CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca> wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 10:54:29 -0500, Ed Eastman <noone@nowhere.net>
> wrote:
> 
>> Laser128 only:
>> QGR mode, single page consisting of page 1 and page 2 of normal mode:
>> 280h x 384v or 560h x 384v
>> Memory is page 1 _and_ page 2 of given mode, page one in the upper half
>> of the screen, page two on the lower half.
> 
> I don't suppose they made this mode work with text mode as well?  It
> would be kind of nice to be able to edit an Applesoft program in an
> 80h x 48v text display.

IIRC they doubled all of the graphics modes.  Quad Lo-Res graphics with 80h
x 8v text at the bottom was actually kind of cool looking, IIRC.
Unfortunately, it was the same character generator chip used, so the text
was almost illegible on a non-RGB computer monitor.  It might have been
decent on a VGA monitor, but didn't own any back then and now I don't own a
Laser 128 any more.

- Mike