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Could you get color? The original Quickdraw APIs (from 128->Plus ROMs) all had library that supported a handful of primary colors, but I was never certain if th
by matthewdgreen 5y ago
Could you get color? The original Quickdraw APIs (from 128->Plus ROMs) all had library that supported a handful of primary colors, but I was never certain if there was any hardware (pre-Mac II) that could actually do anything with color.
- johndoe0815 5y agoNo, this just adjusted the video levels to TTL - and you had to adjust the frequencies of the monitor since the Hercules HSync/VSync frequencies were not exactly what the original Macs generated. The QuickDraw source code (https://computerhistory.org/blog/macpaint-and-quickdraw-source-code/ https://computerhistory.org/blog/macpaint-and-quickdraw-sour...) definitely has some color support, I think the CHM version source code is for an early version used in monochrome Macs (but there's no version number or date given).
- mlaux 5y agoI believe the ImageWriter II dot matrix printer (and maybe a few third party ones) had an optional color ribbon that supported those primary colors.