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From: ln63wzb@sdcc7.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Applevision
Message-ID: <874@sdcc7.ucsd.EDU>
Date: Sat, 14-Feb-87 04:12:48 EST
Article-I.D.: sdcc7.874
Posted: Sat Feb 14 04:12:48 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 15-Feb-87 05:24:58 EST
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Reply-To: ln63wzb@sdcc7.ucsd.edu.UUCP (Grobbins)
Organization: University of California, San Diego
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Summary: Bob Bishop made important contributions

In article <1218@husc6.UUCP> nakada2@husc4.UUCP (paul nakada) writes:
>In article <888@ihlpm.UUCP> jmdavis@ihlpm.UUCP (Davis) writes:
>>Just so the old folklore of the Apple doesn't die I thought I would
>>mention a program by   ???? Bishop   where a living room with TV
>>is drawn and a man appears on the tiny TV screen and dances.
>If I recall, Applevision, as it was called, used a character generator.

Bob Bishop was the early master of Apple hi-res graphics;
Applevision is what sold me on the II.

He did use a hi-res character generator for printing text on the
graphics screen.  His other "milestone" programming techniques on
the II included cassette port sound digitizing and voice
recognition, the first commercial fill routines/dithering on the
Apple (MicroPainter), and documentation of the "half-dot shift"
effect in hi-res (even before Apple got it right.)

Anyone know what he's been up to in the last five years?

Grobbins.