Hello all.
I was reading the article that was posted in IEEE Spectrum on the net,
when suddenly I came across this paragraph:
" An example of extensive color manipulation is a subroutine developed by
Mr. Decuir to avoid burning game patterns onto the TV screen if the VCS is
left unattended. The routine, which cycled through all possible
color-luminance combinations, used only a dozen bytes, a great advantage in
early game cartridges, which held only 2 kilobytes of ROM. "In 2K, you
barely have room to brush your teeth," Mr. Decuir said."
Is this just a subroutine that is accessed in the "mainloop" (to use Nick
Bensema's playfield code)? Does anyone know what this code looks like, and
how it checks if a game is idle or not, and how long the game waits before
a screen saver mode hits?
Thank you.
-John K. Harvey
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