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& \!!bI Mac Mode does on the Mac ($7 A700); if you run into one of those programs, select "normal video" instead of "alternate video" on the <strong>Spectre</strong> startup page. Probably, though, the program will also assume the screen is 64 bytes wide, instead of the ST's 80 bytes, and will present a messy screen anyway - MacPaint 1.3 pulled this trick in FatBits mode, and makes a mess. (MacPaint 1.5 or 2.0 fix this bug). I believe a commercial Golf program also makes this mistake, and that's all the times I've seen it, in many thousands of applications. So, anyway, leave it in Alternate Video and don't worry about it. Color Monitor Support Well, look, we might as well say one thing right up front. Color Monitor support isn't half as good as monochrome; if you get a chance, go monochrome by all means!! Also, we do not support Mac II software that works in color, either. The Mac II requires 256K ROMS and a 68020 processor, plus a strange video setup, NuBus cards, and a million other things that aren't in ST's. It won't work. Here's the problem with color monitors. On a monochrome monitor, there are 400 individual "scan lines", or rows of 640 dots. This means there are 640 x 400 dots on the screen, which means we can paint sharp, crisp pictures onscreen. The Mac has 512 x 342, so we have 128 more dots horizontally, and 58 more vertically. That's why you can have a "bigger" screen on an ST, when running <strong>Spectre</strong>. A color monitor only has 200 scan lines, or a 640 x 200 display. This is 142 less scan lines than the Mac has. Hence, we have several (bad) choices: .. We can show you half the Mac screen (200 scan lines out of 342 total). This gives a pretty clear picture of half the Mac's screen (either the top half, or the bottom half). 61
Mac Mode .. We can sort of scrunch two Mac scan lines into one color line. This gives a fuzzy picture of the entire Mac screen; text isn't especially readable, although you can stand it for awhile. Neither one of these is particularly appealing, so we at least give you the option of doing either. You can change anytime you're in Mac mode with a key press. If you're working in a small area of the screen, you may want to stay in "half screen" mode, since you can see what you're doing. Perhaps you can size the working window to half-screen; in that case, you're in fine shape. .. To toggle to half screen mode, press "SHIFf-(" on the numeric keypad to the right of the main keyboard. .. To toggle to scrunch screen mode, press "SHIff -)" on the numeric keypad. .. While in half-screen mode, to see the top half of the screen, press "SHIFf->t" (asterisk) on the numeric keypad. To see the lower half, press "SHIFf--" (minus sign) on the numeric keypad. (The ">t" is on top of "_", thus it's a bit intuitive). When in "scrunch" mode, your color settings are going to be critical to your visibility. We used to force them to an optimal setting, but persistent complaints resulted in us taking that out; now, you can now set them however you like in the ST's control panel, and we'll use those settings. To understand what's going on in scrunch mode, look at the ST's hardware manual sometime. Each color dot onscreen is derived from two memory bits, which can be one of four combinations. That forms a number, 1-4; that number is used to determine which "color register" to output from. The screen is "scrunched" by taking one Mac dot, putting it into one ST screen bit, taking the Mac dot underneath it, and putting that in the other screen bit. 62
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