Re: Software for MS-DOS 1.25

From: Michał Pleban <*lists_at_michau.name*> Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 12:54:00 +0200 Message-ID: <59E88448.8070706@michau.name> · lists_at_michau.name

Anders Carlsson wrote:

> 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.

Such programs would also be quite limited by the fact that the character
set of IBM PC cannot map very well to character set of CBM-II. Even if
we design our custom char ROM, CBM-II is limited to 128 characters
whereas IBM PC uses all 256.

MJP

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