5 Nov
2007
5 Nov
'07
6:55 p.m.
I wrote:
> And what about the Atari ST? Looks pretty bit-mapped to me.
And on 5 Nov 2007 at 18:50, woodelf answered:
I am talking about machines that boot to a bitmapped
display.
Beg pardon? I'm lost again. The ST had no text mode--it booted to
the only display mode it had--graphics. Text characters were drawn
by subroutine calls (through a very neat scheme of illegal opcode
traps). Right at boot, the ST clears a 32K video buffer.
Cheers,
Chuck