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Re: The Internet-enabled Contiki Desktop OS

In comp.sys.atari.8bit Anders Carlsson <anders.carlsson@mds.mdh.se> wrote:
> uz@remove-to-reply.musoftware.de (Ullrich von Bassewitz) writes:
> 
>>> On the Atari 8-bit, you can get a fairly fast 80 column display 
>>> by alternating the display and the character set used.
>> Has anyone tried something like this on the Commodore machines? 
> 
> Isn't that known as horizontal interlace? I know at least one C64 demo
> which does that (Just4Fun intro by TPF), but I believe it isn't unheard
> of. Not that I would like to use any desktop system for a long while
> with that kind of interlace.

Would it be reasonable to 'switch the desktop into 80 column mode' temporarily
(e.g., while web browsing or something)?


BTW, it occurs to me, I think you can do the flicker trick with one char. set
and use horizontal scroll registers, rather than a second, shifted char. set
(saving 1024 bytes! Wooh!)

:)

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