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Subject: 
Re: Wow! This guy is good!
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lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Date: 
Wed, 7 Jun 2000 03:06:51 GMT
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mattdm@mattdmANTISPAM.org
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Bruce Schlickbernd <corsair@schlickbernd.org> wrote:
more acceptable here, but boy, those 16 non-definable colors drove me nuts
(let's not mention the Apple ][ and the horrors it imposed).  Anyway, I'd

Ohh, lets. No drawing one-pixel wide white lines -- one lone pixel is either
blue or yellow, depending if it's in an even or odd column. (This is due to
the techniques Microsoft invented 20 years later for their ClearType
technology...)




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  Graphics Programming on the Apple II (was: Wow! This guy is good!)
 
(...) Mein Gott! Someone who actually remembers graphics programming on the Apple II! But I remember things a little differently. A pixel was defined in a rather slippery fashion in Apple II "high-resolution" graphics. A pixel was either one bit or (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
  Re: Wow! This guy is good!
 
(...) (Looking at long string of discussion) I'm sorry I mentioned it. That should have been "Let's not *discuss* the Apple ][..." The horror...the horror...(where was Martin Sheen when I needed him)... Bruce (should I mention the horrors of drawing (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jun-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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  Re: Wow! This guy is good!
 
(...) Kinda reminds me of drawing in EGA on 320 x 200 screens. Somehow it seems more acceptable here, but boy, those 16 non-definable colors drove me nuts (let's not mention the Apple ][ and the horrors it imposed). Anyway, I'd agree that it looks (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jun-00, to lugnet.general)

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