Agemixer (01:42:44)
Yes, sideborders opening every frickin rasterline (read: scanline)

Agemixer (01:42:15)

mirrorbird (01:42:14)
46, a strange number. you're gonna tell me that it went into the border

Agemixer (01:41:46)
i made 46 columns mode for 64

mirrorbird (01:41:06)
80 column wow. i've seen 42-col routines on the speccy (repurposing the usual 32 = 256/8) but 80 is literally not possible, not enough pixels. and indeed you'd need a lot of memory that is wasted on colours

Agemixer (01:41:01)

mirrorbird (01:40:06)
BBC modes were good, you could have 80-column (!!) mono, or 16-column (!!) SUPER FAT TEXT and 8 colours. not great for 1982 but you know: Space Invadres, or wordprocessing, your choice

mirrorbird (01:39:14)
Age: aye we don't have screen modes (might have been wise, a lot of 8-bits did)

mirrorbird (01:38:29)
once i had written "help, i'm trapped in a graphics factory", but it was in the bottom 2 lines and gasman removed that part because a scroller was going there. TOO BAD SO SAD

Agemixer (01:38:23)
It's pretty much the same in c64 bitmap mode - when bitmap (graphics) mode is selected, then the text screen area (Vic buffer) turns into color memory: 1 character gives out 8x8 pixel block (of char size) of 4 bits for front color, 4 bits for background.

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