>I think this would be a great thing to try out for an Atari 2600 game.
>Using CC for text may cut the fat out of any 2600 game that called for
>strips of text. That is, if it would work. I've taken a look at the VBI
>patterns that make up closed captioning and it _looks_ like you may be
>able to get away with using playfield graphics for it, but I'm not quite
>sure whether sprites would be necessary. It depends on how much
>horizontal resolution is necessary. If sprites are necessary, you can bet
>that sprite sharing routines (i.e. flicker) would screw it up.
CC is a system to transmit subtitlings in TV shows, right? In Europe that
is handled by Teletext/Videotext, where parts of the page can be defined as
transparent. If the CC signal is similar to Teletext, it can't be produced
by the VCS, because it uses several full lines with a pretty high resulution.
It seems, that the signal is also broadcasted during the horizontal blank,
where the VCS can't display anything.
>> That would be a great challenge for emulator developers too..
>
>Hey, CC is one advantage to using a real 2600 with a real TV.
But it would be only available in the USA.
Ciao, Eckhard Stolberg
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