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Made the word "Dragon" an entity, thereby making it replacable with "Color"
| author | roug |
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| date | Sun, 07 Jul 2002 11:45:14 +0000 |
| parents | 88ae6ed51be6 |
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--- a/docs/nitros9guide/display.appendix Sun Jul 07 11:45:13 2002 +0000 +++ b/docs/nitros9guide/display.appendix Sun Jul 07 11:45:14 2002 +0000 @@ -4,19 +4,20 @@ <section> <title>The Video Display</title> <para> -Dragon Data OS-9 allows the video display to be used in +&vendor; OS-9 allows the video display to be used in alphanumeric, semigraphic, and graphics modes. There are many built-in functions to control the display, which are activated by used of various ASCII control character. Thus, these functions are available for use by software written in any language using standard -output statements (such as "PRINT" in BASIC). The Dragon's Basic09 +output statements (such as "PRINT" in BASIC). The &make; +Computer's Basic09 language has a Graphics Interface Module that can automatically generate these codes using Basic09 RUN statements. </para> <para> The display system has two display modes: Alphanumeric ("Alpha") mode and Graphics mode. The Alphanumeric mode also -includes "semigraphic" box-graphics. The Dragon Computer's display +includes "semigraphic" box-graphics. The &make; Computer's display system uses a separate - memory area for each display mode so operations on the Alpha display do not affect the Graphics display, and visa-versa. Either display can be selected under software @@ -85,7 +86,7 @@ displayed if its high order bit (sign bit) is cleared. Lower case letters are displayed in reverse video. If the high order bit of the character is set it is assumed to be a "Semigraphic 6" graphics -box. See the Dragon manual for an explanation of semigraphics +box. See the &make; Computer manual for an explanation of semigraphics functions. </para> @@ -441,7 +442,7 @@ <section> <title>Get Status Commands</title> <para> -The Dragon Computer I/O driver includes OS-9 Get Status +The &make; Computer I/O driver includes OS-9 Get Status commands that return the display status and joystick values, respectively. These are accessable via the Basic09 Graphics Interface Module, or by the assembly language system calls listed