At 3:48 PM -0500 10/6/2000, slumped@thekeyboard.com wrote:
>Hello Allen!
>
>  AB> The console font is 8x13, I think--the same as the
>    > "large" font in dt.  The "small" font in dt is 6x10,
>    > which gives you an 85x38 screen--more than a standard
>    > terminal.
>
>That's nice, so if any programs threw their hands in the air
>when confronted with a 64 column display, they could be run
>in 85 column mode presumably.  I've heard that some Apple
>colour displays ran at 512x384, but I'm not sure which ones.
>Any idea?  Would I be able to use dt on those?

That would be the Apple 12" display, most commonly seen sitting atop an LC.
It was a decent quality though entirely unremarkable monitor, which could
be driven at 512x384x8 (196608 bytes) with a stock LC, or 512x384x16
(393216 bytes) with a vram upgrade. I belive it's also compatible with most
other Apple video controllers.

Essentially, it was a cheap way of fitting an 8-bit display in only 256k of
vram.

I don't recall if the Color Classic ran the same resolution or not...


Cheers - Tony 'Nicoya' Mantler :)


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