Re: CBM-II Colour mod

From: Jim Brain <brain_at_jbrain.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2017 13:08:11 -0600
Message-ID: <9afaae6a-e85c-ee7b-3e21-8fa890f18b94@jbrain.com>
On 11/7/2017 12:46 PM, smf wrote:
>
> I doubt commodore needed to use their fab to create the colour 8032 
> either. They probably just doubled up on the logic fetching characters 
> from two banks and buffering to create 80 columns, then selected which 
> nybble to output to the monitor based on the monochrome output.
>
I was wondering the same.  Steve, is there much more of an issue to just 
adding more memory as a second set of buffers for color and allowing 80 
columns?

Jim

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