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From: daveh@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
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Subject: Re: Re: 80 columns on the C-64
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Date: Mon, 18-Aug-86 13:18:45 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 18 13:18:45 1986
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> 
> This is my first posting to this net, so please pardon me bringing up what
> may be an old subject.
> 
> My problem: I am ambitiously trying to write a terminal program for the
> C-64, and have decided that it will be near useless without an 80-column
> display. I am aware that there are several boards out to do this, but am
> interested in a software-only solution. I would prefer to write my own, but
> can't decide all that would be involved. Has anyone got any theories on
> this? Please post responses, as my mailbox is kludgey.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> -- 
> these opinions - this entity's extrapolation of reality
> 
> iyamwatiyam - an incarnation of the Aberration
> 
> "Between what is there, and what shouldn't be, lies the Aberration."

Its not very difficult to do a software 80 columns on the C64 using a high-res
screen.  There's a PD VT-52 program that does this, I believe Compute! had an
article on it awhile ago, and if that's not enough, I wrote some PROMAL code
a few years back that drives a software described 80 column display very
easily.  Let me know if you're interested in seeing the code, I might be able
to post it or send you a disk.

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Dave Haynie    {caip,ihnp4,allegra,seismo}!cbmvax!daveh

	"I gained nothing at all from Supreme Enlightenment, and
	 for that very reason it is called Supreme Enlightenment."
							-Gotama Buddha

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