Re: Laser 128 - questions...

[Roger Johnstone <rojaws@orcon.net.nz>]

In <BCA482D8.9F92%mpender@hotmail.com> M. Pender wrote:
> On 4/10/04 8:38 PM, in article 20040411123817988+1200@News.Individual.
> NET, "Roger Johnstone" <rojaws@orcon.net.nz> wrote:
>
>> The older Laser 3000 had a graphics mode called RGB, which was the
>> standard 280x192 Apple resolution, but with 8 real colours, and no
>> colour limitations. It suffered the usual problem of no software 
>> support, but at least it was supported by the Laser's BASIC, so could 
>> easily be used from the owner's own programs.
> 
> I don't remember a Laser 3000.  Was it part of the same family of 
> computers?
>
> - M.

Here's a picture of it http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/lsr3000/

It predated the Laser 128 by a year or two. Its biggest problem was that 
it was only Apple II+ compatible, not IIe compatible. It had 64KB of RAM, 
80-column text and double-hires graphics (560x192, 6 colours), as well 
as the RGB graphics mode, but all these extras were done differently 
than the way Apple did it in the IIe.

In some ways it was actually better than the original Laser 128, in that 
it had a sound chip, ran at 2MHz and had a BASIC in ROM with commands 
for using sound and the extra graphics modes.

-- 
Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~rojaws/
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