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From Stanislav Udin → To Kirill Palmin 16 November 2001
Hello Kirill!
15 Nov 01 22:37, Kirill Palmin -> Evgeny Poddubny:
KP> aot: how things are now on the spectrum with improved support
KP> graphics (hardware)? I remember there were ideas and developments that are used
KP>li
KP> now any of these (games, programs, etc.)?
There are various schemes for expanding Spectrum graphics: here is the increase
number of colors, and hardware multicolor, and increased resolution (384*256,
512*192). There is real benefit only from the 512*192 mode (though in monochrome),
since it is quite simple to implement and there is software support for it.
For example, Lara supports it, providing a full 80 characters per
line. There is also a good text editor for this purpose (ACEdit), commander,
something else. But it makes no sense to write toys using all these extensions, since they are all
slow... Long promised to develop a video card for Speck with
acceleration, let's see what comes of it.
Stanislav