w items that appeared in December 1989 was a disk-based publication called Stack-Central (later changed t... que about this bi-monthly product was that it was based on HyperStudio, the graphics, sound, and text man... ated in a printed publication.
More new disk-based products appeared from A2-Central in 1990. Augus... e began in March 1991. It was also a HyperStudio-based disk publication, but its focus was not on making
rs, such as Atari (with their models 400 and 800, based on the same 6502 as the AppleII) and Texas Instru... ote terminals, which usually consisted of a paper-based glorified typewriter connected by a phone line to... ctor called Catalyst that used a similar graphics-based desktop, icons for files, and the point-and-click... al enough use that their other graphic- and mouse-based products would sell better. Although that did no
and Commodore PET, as well as other new machines based on the Intel 8080 and 8088 processors. It is ent... vious versions of the IIe, there were no hardware-based slots on the IIe card; instead, it used software-based slots that were allocated by moving icons that re... sponse seemed slow, since it was using a software-based Mac text display instead of the hardware-based Ap
e and transmission
of raster-based graphics information
... sest match with an available color of the display based on this color
map. The color components rep... capability, a fixed palette should be created based on the available
display colors for that... image, the output pixel colors will
vary based on the hardware used and its ability to match
pple, Commodore, Atari and a couple of other 6502-based products
came from!
[ Note: Richard G. Couch,... chnology. Of course, Apple
will never build a //-based machine which won't run existing cards and
softw... it as a reasonable goal for future //e software, based
on double hi-res graphics and possibly clever so... us, the /// group has fewer R&D dollars to
spend based on company revenues. Unfortunately, every product
with multiple resizable windows. It had a mouse-based editor that checked program syntax as each line w... rly version was written in Applesoft and was text-based. Apple later released their own version that ran... f program that used "hypertext" was a simple text based one. Certain words in the text of a document bei... or use in a classroom setting. Entirely graphics-based, it defined certain parts of the screen as "butto
iest to use. They designed an interface that was based on using arrow keys to move a cursor (or "bar") t... Apple were not very interested in a "simple" text-based program, when the Mac and its graphic interface w... standing success of AppleWorks, virtually no text-based work processors released for the Apple II made mu... ogram ever written, in terms of speed (being text-based) and overall useability for a wide range of purpo
le
symbol tables. Oh yeah and,
REAL MEN USE A DCI BASED PRINT
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* By Homer Brothers, some time in
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commercially built microcomputer, the Scelbi 8-H, based on Intel's 8008 chip. However, it had limited di... uccess were the Altair 680 (also from MITS, Inc., based on the Motorola 6800 processor), the Jupiter II (
ilt systems were also sold by Commodore (the 6502-based PET, for $595), and Radio Shack (the Z80-based TRS-80, for $600). This was quite a bit less than the Ap
e day were compact, efficient, and primarily text-based.
The non-AppleII computer world had develope... tinued to produce. The latter two computers were based around the 16-bit Motorola 68000 microprocessor,
When the AppleIIe was released, with its RAM-based method of displaying 80 columns of text, nearly a... nges were made to make the onboard "ROM" software-based, which made it easier to distribute system upgrad
l, local systems encouraged the larger, mainframe-based systems to expand and offer services to non-busin... er major online services, and because of the icon-based terminal software, still the easiest to use for t
or. Like any large organization, what it does is based on politics, and how many votes there are; [also,... ers, and more.
o Vitesse, Inc. offers a GS/OS-based package of hard disk management utilities, as wel
ymbol
tables. Oh yeah and,
REAL MEN USE A DCI BASED PRINT
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*
* PRINT, DCI based of course
* By Homer Brothers, some time in
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