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From: toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Pirating Hardware
Message-ID: <1991Feb14.101334.25832@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 14 Feb 91 10:13:34 GMT
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gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:

>I would be happy just to have support for the interlaced 640x400 VOC mode.
>A larger desktop would help me A LOT.

Yeah, but it'd flicker unbearably unless you have a better monitor (like mine,
which was originally for the DEC Rainbow).

>Actually any extensions to the tool sets are hopeless unless Apple
>supports them.  Nobody in his right mind is going to try to market
>products that require the customer to replace Apple tool sets with
>third-party hacked versions.

Get real. Patching tool sets is the Apple supported way for third parties to
enhance the system. The FPE replaces most of the SANE tool set with code that
accesses the coprocessor card, resulting in transparent acceleration of nearly
all SANE operations. The Fastext init replaces certain text tool calls with
code that runs far faster than the firmware.

The issue I am talking about when it comes to 8 bit color is the problem of
programs (or worse, tool calls) which assume the existing color scheme and
fail to work properly when that scheme is changed...

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu