Re:Why the Apple II Didn’t Support Lowercase Letters
by ddingus on Thursday September 10, 2020 @02:27PM
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I am inclined to think he was thinking about color.
The phase shift makes a big difference.
Having 6 colors and the artifact art variations was enough to do pretty much anything, not always well.
Had it been 4 color, it all would have been far more limited.
Frankly, the screen being good enough may be part of why graphics adapters never became common.
I always thought they should have.
Once accelerators took the 6502/816 to 4Mhz plus, a graphics adapter, perhaps combined with a faster CPU would have made a ton of sense.
The power of the default was stronger due to that 6 color capability, IMHO.
Compare 4 color CGA and it is notable.
That said, CGA over NTSC was Apple like with 16 colors, no attribute clashing. That is what an expansion card for the Apple 8 bitters should have done.
The phase shift makes a big difference.
Having 6 colors and the artifact art variations was enough to do pretty much anything, not always well.
Had it been 4 color, it all would have been far more limited.
Frankly, the screen being good enough may be part of why graphics adapters never became common.
I always thought they should have.
Once accelerators took the 6502/816 to 4Mhz plus, a graphics adapter, perhaps combined with a faster CPU would have made a ton of sense.
The power of the default was stronger due to that 6 color capability, IMHO.
Compare 4 color CGA and it is notable.
That said, CGA over NTSC was Apple like with 16 colors, no attribute clashing. That is what an expansion card for the Apple 8 bitters should have done.