On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Tony Mantler wrote:

> >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.

Wow.  I haven't even heard of that display.  I'm duly impressed.  :-)


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

ewww.  That sounds familiar.


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

I was wondering that after I sent my earlier reply....


David

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