:...
:> in a wire select to an unused bank, which meant the screen was spaghetti
:> on power-up until i LOAD'd a copy of the character set.
:
:UGH. You didn't load the RAM from the ROM at power on?!?
No extra rom slots. Had to load from tape or floppy.
:We had the "high resolution graphics" board in one machine; it's
:where I did my first ray tracing code, for an Optics class. Now
:*that* was a cool third party board, replacing the character
:generator output with bitmapped graphics, and un-overlapping the
:video memory by actually wiring in the chip select for more RAM.
I seem to recall the CBM business machines (decked out PETs with a
larger screen and other cool stuff) had some cool graphics capabilities,
but the only time I was ever able to play with one was in the computer
store. They were just too expensive for me at the time.
-Matt
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