On Tue, 30 Oct 2012, Gerrit Heitsch wrote: > On 10/30/2012 09:47 PM, didier@aida.org wrote: >> Hi >> >> On the commdore 8000 40cols or 80cols the font size is 8x8 >> >> On the 80cols cbm8000 is the character rectangular on the screen ? >> >> And >> >> On the 40cols cbm8000 is the character square ? > > From my recollection (I used a 4032 and a 8032 back then), the characters on > the 4032 are square and on the 8032 they are rectangular. > > From the way I remember it looks, I'd say they just doubled the pixel clock > (and of course the memory access on the screen RAM) on the 8032 compared to > the 4032. That's right, but the text mode also puts 2 bit lines between character lines. Graphic mode leaves out those extra lines. Older PETs without the CRTC do not put in extra lines in either mode. wlevak@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2012-10-31 04:00:11
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