Re: Mockingboard output through IIgs internal speaker?

["Charlie" <charlied@NOSPAMbboard.com>]

"Roger Johnstone" <roger@ihug.invalid> wrote in message
20031215193734463+1300@news.inv.ihug.co.nz">news:20031215193734463+1300@news.inv.ihug.co.nz...
> In <bri3lp01oso@enews1.newsguy.com> Charlie wrote:
> >
> > I've always wondered why the "monochrome" display setting only worked
> > for Double HiRes when using an RGB monitor.
> >
> > Charlie
>
> Because double hi-res really has two modes: 560 pixels per line in
> monochrome and 140 pixels per line in colour. The older computers had no
> way of telling which mode you wanted, so the IIe composite colour
> monitor has a switch on the front to turn off colour! The IIgs replaces
> that with a softswitch. Some IIgs-aware programs which use DHR graphics
> will automatically change the setting themselves e.g. IIRC PublishIt!
> uses DHR and will switch a IIgs to monochrome while it's running.

Thanks for the information.  I had always thought that DHR graphics had only
one mode (140 pixel color) and that the composite color monitor switch just
turned off the color burst signal.

Charlie