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Post #17 by Charlieman
Source ForumMacintosh II - Do you remember what it was like? — #17
Category68k
Post DateMon, 20 May 2013 - 20:01
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/macintosh-ii-do-you-remember-what-it-was-like.28101/
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Before the Mac II, the world was Black & White, for all practical purposes. Grayscale was a revelation and color of any quality was almost unheard of, the Mac II series was the breeding ground for the evolution of high end color graphics solutions. Digital_Darkroom shipped for grayscale the same year as the Mac II, but Photoshop 1.0 was still three years away.
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That timescale pretty much ties up with the launch of 32 bit QuickDraw (April 1989). Graphics card manufacturers had created 24 bit colour boards before that date but each one implemented the functionality in a different way. Software developers had to write around the limitations of Color QuickDraw to get 24 bit colour, and they had to do it for every card. Development speed was limited until 32 bit QuickDraw on System 6 created a new standard. Then colour really took off.

Does anyone recall the test image of a frog that was used to demonstrate the ability to print green on a dye sublimation printer?

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