On the Apple II-family of computers (including the Apple IIe and Apple IIgs), Graphics Resolutions (GR) is a low-level graphics mode that is accessible through Applesoft BASIC (the command "GR") as well as compiled programs. The Apple II was one of the most popular personal computers of the 1980s. ... The Apple IIe was the third model in the Apple II line of personal computers, produced by Apple Computer. ... The Apple IIGS, the fifth model inception of the Apple II, was the most powerful member of the Apple II series of personal computers made by Apple Computer. ... Applesoft BASIC was the second dialect of BASIC supplied on the Apple II computer, superseding Integer BASIC. Applesoft BASIC was supplied by Microsoft; Apple was looking for a new version of BASIC for the Apple II Plus computer with 48 KB of RAM, and after their success with Altair BASIC...

This particular resolution was useless for most applications, as it was merely a 40x40 grid with 4-bit color (that is, 16 colors), and thus pixels would like like large rectangles. Because of this, most applications opted for either Super High-Resolution Graphics (SHGR) for Apple IIgs applications, or High-Resolution Graphics (HGR) for other Apple platforms. A pixel (a contraction of picture element) is one of the many tiny dots that make up the representation of a picture in a computers memory. ...