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The font from Screenwriter ]['s 70-column mode in hgr2 for non-80 column Apple ][s may qualify as the first subpixel typeface. http://books.google.com/books?id

• joezydeco 17y ago
  I remember that one. And man, did it look awful on a color TV. You really needed a dedicated monochrome monitor to make that one work.
• rbanffy 17y ago
  I badly miss the ability to move something half a pixel to the left ;-) Newbies will never know what it is to wield such power
• thristian 17y ago
  How so? The Apple's high-res graphics mode was 280 pixels wide, the standard ROM font drew characters 7 pixels wide to achieve 40 characters per line; it sounds like ScreenWriter II drew characters 4 pixels wide to achieve 70 characters per line (a bit cramped, especially for M and W, but doable). What is 'subpixel' about that?
  • kevbin 17y ago
    It's not really 280 pixels wide: there are 280 addressable pixels but changing one can affect another nearby. Drawing diagonal, intersecting lines can make your blue lines green or whatever. Loosely speaking, there are 280 sub-pixels across, which works fine on monochrome monitors but on color monitors screenwriter's 70 column mode is psychedelic.