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Re:Why the Apple II Didn’t Support Lowercase Letters by thought_alarm on Thursday September 10, 2020 @03:16PM (#24435575)
Actually, the very first Apple IIs only supported 4 colors in hi-res mode. The 8th bit was ignored.

A later revision added support for 6 colors, using the 8th bit to shift the pixels and change the pallet.

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Re:Why the Apple II Didn’t Support Lowercase Letters by mzs on Thursday September 10, 2020 @04:10PM (#24436060)
Thank, I just consulted appendix B of my copy, you are correct. DL7 is unconnected in nonRFI rev0 though every later Apple II RFI or not could do 6 color HIRES.
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