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From: ranger@ecsvax.UUCP (Rick N. Fincher)
Newsgroups: net.micro.apple
Subject: Re: C128 vs Apple //e
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Date: Thu, 2-Oct-86 09:50:10 EDT
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> [Line eater, get me.]
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I saw a review of the new //GS on TV, and they were loading an
> image, and it came up with the familiar fill-in-between the lines
> fashion of the II.  Perhaps this was just done for "effect" to
> disolve the screen.  I sure was hoping the GS would have a mode
> with a contiguous bit map to make manipulations easier (and
> faster).  Perhaps, the 128K quickdraw ROM in the GS will be a
> relief, and I won't have to do the dogwork of figuring out how to
> make the hardware dance nicely.
> 
>   --Bill
> 
> Bill Mayhew
> Division of Basic Medical Sciences
> Northeastern Ohio Universities' College of Medicine
> Rootstown, Ohio  44272  USA    216-325-2511
> (wtm@neoucom.UUCP)

The new graphics modes on the //gs have 32K of contiguous screen 
memory with 16 color tables.  You won't have to do handstands quite
so much for them.

Rick