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|    Charles Richmond to Andreas Kohlbach    |
|    Re: ATARI and Spectrum are rubbish - The    |
|    13 May 18 19:53:02    |
      From: numerist@aquaporin4.com              On 5/11/2018 3:01 PM, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:       > On Thu, 10 May 2018 22:15:28 -0700 (PDT), bradleyjbell@comcast.net wrote:       >>       >> [snip...] [snip...] [snip...]       >>       >> But tell us all about the C64 graphic modes. Can you easily mix them?       >> Did you have re definable character sets?       >       > AFAIK you cannot mix graphic modes on the Commodore 64. But you could       > edit the character set.       >              You *can* switch graphic modes and also mix graphic and text modes on       the C=64. You do that by counting the horizontal retrace interrupts and       using the appropriate blanking pulses to change the mode "on the fly".                     --       numerist at aquaporin4 dot com              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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