Re: Software for MS-DOS 1.25

From: Anders Carlsson <*anders.carlsson_at_sfks.se*> Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 12:48:56 +0200 Message-ID: <826324B236E5428DAC0387234D26FF1B@ryds> · anders.carlsson_at_sfks.se

Michau wrote:

> I'm pretty sure demos would rather use graphics mode, which we cannot 
> emulate anyway - we are emulating the MDA graphics card.

Or at least ANSI text mode with colours and other tricks, which also is 
beyond the emulation. One could possibly imagine some early text based 
demonstations, similar to the Cursor animations for the PET, but running on 
an IBM PC. Then again the IBM character set is far more limited graphically 
than the Commodore characters so MDA would've been an even less attractive 
format for demos/animations than the 40 and 80 column PETs (or the CBM-II 
natively) were.

Best regards

Anders Carlsson

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