5 Nov
2007
5 Nov
'07
6:07 p.m.
Cameron Kaiser wrote:
The C64 has sprite graphics, but it definitely has a
bitmapped graphics
mode. It's somewhat more inconvenient to work in because of its cell-
oriented arrangement, but it's bitmapped.
I still favor character graphics, but everything in drawn in bitmap today.
Weird OS design/display 640x400 --- for a 18 bit machine?
layer 1) OS menu - cell graphics.
layer 2) Text display - cell graphics.
layer 3) Bit mapped display - 512 color - 9 bits?
256 fixed colors?
So, I'm not sure where you're drawing the line
here, but all of the machines
you mention have bitmapped graphics and were home computers, except perhaps
the Lisa, but only due to cost.