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From: sdh@thumper.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: IIe split screen query.
Message-ID: <380@thumper.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Feb-87 12:17:55 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  5 12:17:55 1987
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>     I want to set up the split text/hires screen on my IIe such that
> more than just 4 lines of text are visible at the bottom. Is this possible, 
> or does the video system limit things? I can't find anything about this
> option in my "Inside the Apple IIe", but maybe there are some nice little
> zero page system variables that somebody out there knows about and can
> kindly fill me in on them.
> Bob Dickow (...egg-id!ui3!dickow)

Sorry, Bob.  The four lines of text is a hardware limitation.  There is
no convenient way of getting more text in that space except by altering
the hardware, or writing (or using) a hi-res character generator
package to do this (at the cost of somewhat slower output).

Steve "Retief of the CDT" Hawley
bellcore!sdh