Re: [stella] Color-cycling

Subject: Re: [stella] Color-cycling
From: PatMan <dgeller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 01:31:11 -0400
>Is the color-cycling that games go through after they haven't been
>played for a while in the hardware or the software?
>
>My theory is that it's in the hardware, but the software can make a
>call to start it sooner than usual.

Hmm, perhaps...but the software apparently *always* has to call for it
when it wants it.  I say this because the *later* Atari games (especially
those with a "title screen") do NOT color cycle (Ms. PacMan, Centipede,
Stargate/Defender II are examples of this)

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