Using the HIRES Screen Dump Program

Chapter 8

Using the HIRES Screen Dump Program

Should I Study This Chapter?

Epson dealers can supply a machine language “screen dump” diskette for Apple users with 48K disk systems. It permits creation of exotic HI-RES graphics on the Apple screen, then dumping them, dot for dot to the MX-70 printer.

Since the MX-70 graphics are related to the Apple (as the MX-80 graphics replicate the TRS-80’s), this particular software is of interest only to Apple users. Knowing this crazy field however, some ingenious software writer working in his garage will probably come up with a partial HIRES program for use with our popular computers.

Meanwhile, if you are using your MX-70 with another brand of computer, you can just as well ignore this chapter. Go in peace, and enjoy your printer.

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Apple Dump

The “screen dump” diskette comes with a DOS 3.3 operating system, so it works fine on a one drive system.

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