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The Videx Ultraterm a Video- Display Card That Enables the Apple to Display up to 160 Columns Or 48 Lines Software Review The Videx Ultraterm A video- display card that enables the Apple to display up to 160 columns or 48 lines by Peter V. Callamaras The Videx Ultraterm is a new video -display card de- your video display using any or all of the available modes signed to plug into any Apple II (II, II Plus, or IIe) to (highlight, lowlight, inverse, etc.), a built -in soft switch enable the Apple to display more than its standard 40 that will automatically give you the 80- column mode columns. when you boot either Pascal or CPIM, and a well -written Before the introduction of this display card, Apple users manual. owners had only two choices concerning the number of The features are impressive, yet the Ultraterm is also columns they could display: they could accept the stan- easy to install and use. After you open the top of the dard 40 columns or add a peripheral card to give the Apple and ground yourself to the power supply (by Apple 80 columns. In either case the number of rows, or touching the large gold unit in the left -rear corner of the lines displayed, was limited to 24. The Ultraterm offers computer), simply plug the Ultraterm board into one of Apple owners a greater choice of displays (see table 1). the Apple's expansion slots and plug a two -wire molex In addition to adding to the amount of information you can display on the screen (see photo 1), the Ultraterm a 1. 1. API. p., Il.w 14;4r Ira 1101 I.n actually enhances the visual display with these features: the RI'l'lIn///natwÌ IralM.l.IS..nlay 1Virr'.1 fur'bthe.RPl'1111ÌIIIIRIII'0III 11. for r.rsal s l r ty. Pnrúter, Ihr IN IIRIIINI antlard and " 'r of sow I:tw'r.r th; 1r1 ..f Ir'wlurr. rrtlt th.r.rtrr vu.litY h 1.41114146 any ntnrr rodeo dr4plaYp.rtnlnnvl fw r. A.aevl.yth.rla.lrtalll rrl.r . a1wtahlr titsr mud.% may a standard high -resolution character set (7- by 9 -dot d..P11.Y9'.., i.de.. /1 rulmm by y1 linr b+play ru. lud ro t rr. rrslr. l.. l t y font) M rolumn by aU I.n. Á.4plq ur rdr t r nti 12$ column hY I? Isar dr+play u.vrnÌ ..¡n:aJ.n....t high (9- 16 It... a -quality character set by -dot font) 164 ruin.. by p4 4.44.14ÿ Al nod... r. n ua intarlacr for fnlly r d vel 1 Irnr. the ability to choose between normal or inverse -video Aar.rtrr4 1:rs'drtrrf.rrarr .r.ñpurt l'u. Ras, r rpa.r al. ant l 1:1'/M 1.. .. run width l'atta{ rd.lo. r.1.tur tan 1.. display llÿnrrtlroof fura.nYdrlt4pl.y mtidr.. III'gh ym.lir;. h.Rl..low,.r: rharwrr.r . tlal.l. rU n li' Int matr.+ Il,r. n rrl.rr mwls t nnh.nrr thrrrn.I.IYr ul d..pl.y the ability to display the characters in either a high- Ruflw.rn suPpnrt Pr.botil P.rPw1I1l.. /'rtr' Ritpl. Ytr t 1L.,":14"::.;;; rwll: .vh yoa a hapl.y rapaU.titY rtlhth...r I.rwY'.ms lhal light, normal, or lowlight mode (this refers to the relative V.epl.v iir.lwtra available on character by rharar t rr ha.tr yy br no glrl l Nht/I owls Rht. ....ern /oor.al el den and 11., watt rh.rart.. ...i cll brightness of the characters on the screen) pr Nr ablr.1lh ballrare The r r.l alno uff... nlwn.l sori vali, br.lrn ro allo.. easy b.lrrt.un brtw.rn Irnt titi Nraph.r.Prn:lra.blr Ihr 1111NR11N1 . 15- character line- drawing set as part of the standard ViMOtr r-p ithlr ntt ,h murk Of It.. of uort .ten Ian the a "a d.,pla` Popular prove . a urrorral ton P a.p. nil ut onfti1 program nt I l uau on thePiii I/AII NN character set .tm.nta con Yrr Is n hr 1 hY rrr ynpyúrt¡drsrt ter¡Ilia.,ntoraalrunhfrsarrhrJr pr uIraarr Y r hr Ytde seven block graphics of +n. r r Wnory,tNr amt. characters as part the standard the Art design Advanced awd Ian 111Y l'IIYIN hotiMyy lutist fur hrtih ..1 J Our nulls layer Pr. character set pur Ian purs wrnswpsonth... card than .v.r bolo.. huard and hoof; tit... "I, IaYw.. 96 ASCII (American National Standard Code for In- formation Interchange) characters with true descenders Photo 1: An example of one of the text formats possible with the Videx Ultraterm card for the Apple II. In this mode, the Apple can display The Ultraterm also gives you the ability to "program" an incredible 48 lines of 80- column text. 310 February 1984 © BYTE Publications Inc. .
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