17 Nov
2007
17 Nov
'07
7:26 p.m.
--- Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 17 Nov 2007 at 7:33, Chris M wrote:
I know. I was there. It was just after I joined the
list. And it was I, even I, who pointed out that there
was a game written by Bill Gates w/a big brown donkey,
putting to rest the doubts of the naysayers.
Off the top of my head, I don't know, or rather can't
see what a prom had to do with it. If a monitor's
phosphors were capable of producing brown (presumably
all were) and the unit is *tuned* to take a *brown*
signal and display brown, you'd have brown. But I
guess I'll have to look over those posts (~2.5 years
ago IIRC).
Yeah I guess the original IBM 5153 display stood out
in at least that respect. But it was pretty
unspectacular in other respects. The colors were
*deep* enough, which usually depended on the
*darkness* of the tube. But the dot pitch wasn't
anything particularly unusual. I have a nice one in my
attic. Got to dig it out this week when I have a few
days to play...
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I was going to say isn't that largely
dependent
on
the monitor used? A non-issue w/a newer analogue
monitor, that is if the voltage was correct. But
you
could always vary the resistance on that
particular
line, no?
We've been here before. The IBM color display as
well as the EGA
version contains a PROM to correct the "dark yellow"
color to brown.
It was duplicated on few, if any third-party units.