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GeneralRe: HPOTD (hexadecimal pattern of the day) Pin
CDP18026-Dec-16 0:02
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Not really. The the graphics chip displayed a constant horizontal resolution of 64 pixels (8 bytes) and 128 lines.

AT 64 x 128 the pixels are about four times wider than high and the video buffer took 1k. I think I have only one program that actually used this mode.

Fortunately you couls just repeat the same line twice, reducing the resolution to 64 x 64 and the video buffer to 1/2k. That also reduced the aspect ratio of the pixels to 2, which was far more usable.

The mostly used resolution of 64 x 32 was reached by repeating each line four times. The pixels were square, but huge. The video buffer was only 1/4k. This[^] was the test program I entered with the hex keyboard right after soldering together my computer. The image comes from an emulator, of course. The basic computer had only 1/4k memory, so the 'garbage' at the top is the program and the stack.

Anyway, drawing entire screens on graph paper was not really hard.
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GeneralRe: HPOTD (hexadecimal pattern of the day) Pin
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