Laser computers from VTL

At 04:00 AM 3/21/97 -0500, you wrote: The "mixed" colors are created thru a phenomenon called "color artifacting." This happens when you try to display thin (vertical usually) white lines on a color TV. The TV cannot show lines that thin on the phosphor grid, so you end up activating only the (usually) blue or red pixels. The Color Computer 1 / 2 had the same "problem" and many programs for this took advantage of this to show color for the highest-resolution which was monochrome. I think it's the phase of the video sync that changes with respect to the TV that makes the colors swap... Many of the CoCo programs that used this technique actually remapped the reset key so it would re-enter the program, and showed a test screen with 2 boxes and "this should be blue" under one and "this should be red" under the other. You just kept resetting the computer (without having to re-load the pgm every time) until the colors synced correctly. Helpful for RPG's that said "you need the blue key..." Of course, when we "geeks" upgraded to the RGB monitor on the CoCo 3, we lost all color artifacting... and the games became almost totally unplayable. (No! You need the *other* white-striped key!) ;-) Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- Roger Merchberger | Everyone complained to me to change my .sig, Programmer, NorthernWay | but no-one could recommend something better. zmerch(a)northernway.net | So you'll have to put up with this *junk* | until I find some new wisdom to share.