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- From: koehn@vms.macc.wisc.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Color QuickDraw on old Macs
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.031837.7017@macc.wisc.edu>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 02:17:04 GMT
- Sender: news@macc.wisc.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: University of Wisconsin Academic Computing Center
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- There's a major problem I'm having with the Mac Operating System: why in the
- hell can't Apple put Color QuickDraw on all Macs? It makes programming a major
- pain, and seems unnecessarily divisive. Now I know what everybody out there is
- going to say:
-
- "Because Color QuickDraw on an 8 MHz 68000 would be dog slow."
-
- But why not just extend the functionality of plain old B&W quickdraw a bit?
- Just make the necessary routines to make CGrafPorts and such that work only in
- 1-bit on those machines. Then even though they remain strictly B&W macs, they
- can run CQD applications. You don't have to put QuickTime on them, just let 'em
- run more programs! Now I know what everybody out there is going to say:
-
- "But it would just make the machines slow down trying to display color
- information and convert it to 1-Bit mode!"
-
- But all of that code seems to already exist! How else can my Mac Plus (which
- has an 030/882 and should be able to run CQD ANYWAY) display PICTs from color
- machines that have 24-bit images, color lines, etc? It seems to be speedy
- enough! The color map PICT from the System 7 scrapbook draws fast enough for
- me, even when I turn off my accellerator! All I'm saying is just extend the
- existing code package the two inches further necessary to give some kind of
- bare minimum CQD support to all macs, if not a full-blown package with things
- like QuickTime.
-
- It would make my life much easier, both as a programmer and as a user.
-
- Brad Koehn
- koehn@mac.wisc.edu
-