22 Feb
1998
22 Feb
'98
8:34 p.m.
On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, Larry Anderson & Diane Hare wrote:
I recall a video flaw on the PET what would
generate a hairline
verticle line between two characters which I took advantage of in one
program (I would not expect VICE to reproduce that)... Then on the 64
some games looked cooler on regular composite monitors than on the crisp
split-composite due to the artifacting (case in point was the game Sword
of Fargoal, the unicorn's horn looked more like a rainbow than a white
dotted line).
A very good point. The Apple // emulator I have (AppleWin) has an option
to select color or monochrome (green) graphics. It reproduces Apple
graphics true to its original inherent flaws.
Some games just look better in monochrome. Others look good in color. In
fact, when I finally got a color monitor on my //e, it was good that it
was switchable to monochrome because I got too used to playing some games
in mono. Also, some games, it seems, were developed in mono because when
you switched to color they looked crappy.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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