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Apple II graphics: More than you wanted to know
The Apple ][ is one of the most iconic vintage computers of all time. But since Wozniak’s monster lasted all the way until 1993 (1995 if you could the IIe ca...
A lot of the fiddly details of the Apple II’s video that a programmer has to put up with could have been papered over with a few extra logic gates, internal registers, and buffers. And I’ve always enjoyed the thick letters of the Atari 8-bit font, which not only look nice, but also help readability on a system whose text mode is single-color (varying only in luminance) and would be viewed by most users over a noisy RF modulator. Even if you alternate groups of two pixels, that signal isn’t at 3.579545MHz, so your television won’t be able to pull out any color information from it– it’ll just be treated as monochrome white.
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