Post by gsteemso on Oct 18, 2014 4:03:46 GMT
Hi all,
I recently read something (don’t recall when, where, nor who wrote it) about someone having, as a proof of concept, reimplemented VDC text mode via (IIRC) 8x8-pixel bitmap cells. Doing it that way let them give each cell its own background colour. That got me thinking, the only way to show a colour bitmap on the VDC is to do the 8x1-pixel-cells trick and assign each cell its own foreground-background colour pair. So, my question: How do people achieve that? As we all know, it’s not a feature Commodore remembered to build in, so how is it done?
I recently read something (don’t recall when, where, nor who wrote it) about someone having, as a proof of concept, reimplemented VDC text mode via (IIRC) 8x8-pixel bitmap cells. Doing it that way let them give each cell its own background colour. That got me thinking, the only way to show a colour bitmap on the VDC is to do the 8x1-pixel-cells trick and assign each cell its own foreground-background colour pair. So, my question: How do people achieve that? As we all know, it’s not a feature Commodore remembered to build in, so how is it done?
