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From: rosenman@godot.radonc.unc.edu (Julian Rosenman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Problems for a new IIGS owner (II)
Message-ID: <1137@godot.radonc.unc.edu>
Date: 16 Nov 89 13:45:30 GMT
Reply-To: rosenman@godot.UUCP (Julian Rosenman)
Organization: Radiation Oncology NCMH/UNC, Chapel Hill, NC
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I want to thank all of you who answered the questions under "Problems
for a new IIGS user." However, one of the questions apparently
confused a lot of you. I asked if the "frame" (the area that surrounds
the text area) could be changed (i.e. written to) OTHER THAN THE
BACKGROUND COLOR. Most of you wrote to tell me that I could change the
color via the control panel. We all know that. Some answered that the
frame could not be changed, that it was "cast in stone" (I assume this
means in hardware), "cast in ROM" (does this mean that with a change
in ROM this area might be accessible in the future?) or "requires
tricky interrupt handeling" (does this mean that we could write into
the frame if we were very clever?).

It seems to me that part of the fun of the Apple II line is finding
ways to make the machine do things that Apple never intended it to do.
Writing into the frame would be in the spirit of the thing, as well as
providing lot of extra pixels which are always in short supply.

Julian