GEM VDI True Color Video
In palette-based video modes, a pixel value represents a hardware color register. Each hardware color register contains an RGB color value which determines the actual color used to display the pixel. If you change the RGB values contained in a color register, all pixels in the display which contain the value corresponding to that register will change color. The built-in video of the ST STe TT series is palette-based. With true color video, the value of a pixel directly represents the actual RGB...
SpeedoGDOS
The new SpeedoGDOS, along with new device drivers and the CHARTER Speedo font family, is now available online in the GDOS library of the ATARI.RSC Developer Roundtable on GEnie. SpeedoGDOS is a new version of GDOS that uses Bitstream Speedo format outline fonts. The GDOS library is private to request access, please leave email to MIKE-FULTON or ATARIDEV. One new feature of the new printer drivers that come with SpeedoGDOS is that they now recognize the concept of an unprintable margin around...
vrocpyfm
vro_cpyfm handle, wr_mode, pxyarray, psrcMFDB, pdesMFDB The wr_mode parameter indicates the write mode to use in copying a rectangular area from one raster form to another. In both true color and palette-based modes, this is a bit-level operation. Since the bits for a pixel value mean something different in true color modes, the onscreen results of the same logic operation can be different. They are easily predictable, however. Some programs use vro_cpyfm with write mode 0 to clear areas of the...
A ATARll
Serial port, Modem 1 port now uses SCC chip for higher transfer rates instead of 68901 MFP chip. STE-compatible hardware video scrolling STE-compatible joystick ports SCSI 2 port for hard disk drives, scanners, tape drives, etc. And of course, there are many other new features, but it would take too long to list everything. Approximately 25 machines were on display at the show, and virtually all of them were purchased by excited developers at the end of the show. Additional developer units...