Re: Discovered the Hi-Res Basic!

From: Daniel O'Shea <*dan_at_ozramp.net.au*> Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 19:19:22 +1030 Message-ID: <3da3d5da-595a-52b6-df9b-2e1308174f96@ozramp.net.au> · dan_at_ozramp.net.au

On 01/11/17 18:21, David Holz wrote:
> Using these characters, you could fake a 160x50 bitmap, with each
> character byte representing 2x2 of those chunky "pixels", each chunky
> "pixel" covering 4x4 hardware pixels by using these particular glyphs.
> So this isn't any special screen mode, it's simply utilizing the block
> drawing font characters to cover evenly divided portions of character cells.

The Mattel Aquarius did something similar for its 80x72 'graphics' mode!

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