2026-11-07 14:41 UTC
@ajsadauskas@mastodon.social @retrogaming a comment I heard made during the development period for the Gamma was that Owen felt that was all about getting the hardware to work and the "software would be easy".
Note that I only have that as a passed along attribution. While I did meet Owen at least once (i.e. in Perth) that was much earlier.
A lot of the screens in the video are the rounded types that could only do the lower resolution mode of 64x16 characters. For CP/M and 80x24 we sold the better monitors.
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@geraldew@fosstodon.org 2026-11-07 14:55
@ajsadauskas@mastodon.social @retrogaming the capability of the monitors was also a reason that the higher resolution mode was limited to 80x24, even though there was enough memory to do 80x25. For my own Microbees - while employed I replaced my 56k model with two 128k models - I rewrote the BIOS EPROM to do 80x25 and it worked on my monitors quite okay - but only just. Testing that on many monitors showed that some would require tweaking, so I understood why they kept it at 80x24.