Date   : Sat, 27 Aug 2011 05:43:38 +0200
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: Tube ROM

On 26/08/2011 22:50, J.G.Harston wrote:

> Yes, MODE 8 *is* a four-colour MODE 0 - or 80-column MODE 1,
> whatever you want to think of it. It's 80 column text in four
> colours - that's what was asked for, and that's what MODE 8 is.

Indeed, the full quote is:
   "I would have killed for a 4-colour Mode 0 back in the day (80?32?4)"
which your MODE 8 provides - the 80x32x4 text, however it is worth 
noting that MODE 8 is not MODE 0 in terms of resolution. I'd have killed 
for a four colour MODE 0, but it just ain't possible. No way no how.


Still, I'll fire up MODE 8 on BeebEm, take a look-see at it. It seems 
like a fairly elegant way to solve a problem.


> I know I am completely and utterly useless at creating imaginative
> examples,

I guess that makes two of us.
At school the maths teacher told us to be more creative in how we did 
our prep [*] - that maths should be "fun" [#]. So I did my next sheet 
completely in binary, with calculations expressed in 6502 code - 
thankfully nothing overflowed 16 bits, it might have been complicated 
otherwise.
He wasn't amused. Meh.


* - homework

# - I only ever see maths being described as "fun" by the sort of people
     that challenge *themselves* to games of Chess. Maths only starts to
     get fun when you look at quantum mechanics, and that's mostly
     because you've strayed into cloud cuckoo land where the regular
     rules of reality don't apply...


Best wishes,

Rick.

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