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to: ANDREAS KOHLBACH
from: CHARLES RICHMOND
date: 2018-05-13 19:53:00
subject: Re: ATARI and Spectrum ar

On 5/11/2018 3:01 PM, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
> On Thu, 10 May 2018 22:15:28 -0700 (PDT), bradleyjbell@comcast.net wrote:
>>
>>       [snip...]           [snip...]           [snip...]
>>
>> But tell us all about the C64 graphic modes. Can you easily mix them?
>> Did you have re definable character sets?
>
> AFAIK you cannot mix graphic modes on the Commodore 64. But you could
> edit the character set.
>

You *can* switch graphic modes and also mix graphic and text modes on
the C=64.  You do that by counting the horizontal retrace interrupts and
using the appropriate blanking pulses to change the mode "on the fly".


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