POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Computers are fast : Re: Reminiscences of an Old Fart Server Time
5 Sep 2024 07:26:07 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Reminiscences of an Old Fart  
From: Stefan Viljoen
Date: 18 Nov 2009 11:06:00
Message: <4b041b68@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:

> Stefan Viljoen <pov### [at] polardcom> wrote:
>> Warp wrote:
> 
>> >   The first 32 bytes in the screen memory represented the first line of
>> > pixels (256 of them). The next 32 bytes represented the *eigth* line of
>> > pixels. The next 32 bytes represented the *sixteenth* line of pixels,
>> > and so on, until you get to one third of the screen, ie. 8 such groups
>> > of 32 bytes, after which the next 32 bytes represented the second line

Which ZX Spectrum video mode was this?

'pedia says there are / were lots and lots of them - what mode does this 
arrangement refer to? The lowest res one?

Or were all the modes arranged similarly to this way, only with longer lines 
and "quicker" jumps?
-- 
Stefan Viljoen


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