22 Feb
1998
22 Feb
'98
10:31 a.m.
From: Ward Donald Griffiths III <gram(a)cnct.com>
Subject: RE: Future Computing Trends
I defy _anybody_ to say that a "better"
display would improve any
Big Five Software arcade games as they ran on the 128x48 monochrome
graphics of the TRS-80 1/3. And I defy anybody to find a better
batch of arcade games, unless you really want to see the blood from
kicked-in faces, a fetish I outgrew 25 or so years ago.
I know exactly what you mean, I recall my few months of playing with
a TRS-80 (loaned to me from the high school) with that wobbly picture
when there was too much white on some lines... Sometimes you loose the
translation with the sharp graphics generated on multi-sync displays by
the emulators.
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).
It was those minute blurs that made the graphics a bit more fancy.
Larry Anderson
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22 Feb
22 Feb
3:56 p.m.
;-) Clearing the snow from my glasses, I saw Larry Anderson & Diane Hare
typed:
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).
It was those minute blurs that made the graphics a bit more fancy.
Yessir, a lot of games (like Cave Walker & Sands of Egypt) used the color
artifacting to get 4-color graphics (black, white, red & blue) out of the
2-color mode on the CoCo's, too.
Rather a pain to play sometimes on a nice, crisp RGB monitor when you have
to look for the "no, the other white striped key" instead of the blue key
for some particular door...
See ya,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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26 Feb
26 Feb
12:04 a.m.
On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, Roger Merchberger wrote:
<snip>
Rather a pain to play sometimes on a nice, crisp RGB
monitor when you have
to look for the "no, the other white striped key" instead of the blue key
for some particular door...
This reminds me (because you used the same phrase before). A loooong time
back I was complaining that my Laser 3000 had two possible colour sets in
its "HGR 5" and "HGR 6" graphics modes. You suggested hitting reset
like
you do on the CoCo to get the "proper" colour set.
Well, when I finally got back to playing with my Laser 3000, I
discovered the "COLOR DEFEAT" switch on the back, put there so that you
don't have to deal with hideous colour bleed on text screens while
programming or word processing. Flicking this switch back and forth a few
times will switch the colour sets, and won't disturb the program at all.
So now I can actually use those funky sort-of-64-colour modes.
Too bad I don't have a disk drive for the thing.
Oh yeah, I'm actually considering putting up a web page for the Laser
3000. I don't know if there's much point in doing so, but it could be
cool.
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Owner, MerchWare | nuclear warhead disarmament should
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Doug Spence
ds_spenc(a)alcor.concordia.ca
22 Feb
22 Feb
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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