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Article #2365Re: Some news items from Atari
From: D'arc Angel
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 1986 18:10
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 1986 18:10
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> there are two interesting side effects of the rom TOS. the
> colors on the desktop (i haven't had time to check elsewhere yet) are
> distinctly "richer". in addition some of the moire patterns that plagues
> the color monitor have been eliminated or reduced in intensity.
that is because in the old TOS every other pixel was the foreground color,
why ? i dont know !
>
> before leaving the dealer he did point out one "bug" with the
> rom TOS. font-maker software from ANTIC would work under the disk TOS
> but NOT with the rom TOS. also i've experienced some problem with
> saving a new desktop to disk; i won't declare this a bug yet until i've
> played with it a bit more.
(i believe this is correct) the font-maker worked by replacing the
'standard font' in TOS with its own by changing a vector, with TOS
in rom guess what (hint: the RO stands for read-only (:-))
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