Re: Z26, VSYNC, Timers, somebody HELP ME! (was: Re: [stella] GunfightRelease Candidate(s))

Subject: Re: Z26, VSYNC, Timers, somebody HELP ME! (was: Re: [stella] GunfightRelease Candidate(s))
From: Chris Wilkson <ecwilkso@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 14:51:08 -0500 (EST)
On Sat, 10 Nov 2001, Andrew Wallace wrote:

> My experience (with my PAL setup) suggests that getting the scan line count
> just a little 'wrong' is worse than getting it a lot 'wrong'.
> eg. 261, 263, 313 are all bad with the loss of most of the colour, 240 and
> 324 are vibrant.
>
> Carts which I have had problems with have usually turned out to be a few
> lines short or long (NTSC combat for example with 263 lines is a problem)

IIRC, the PAL color loss thing happens ANY time you have an odd number of
scanlines.  This would seem to match your data as presented.  Someone with
a PAL setup wanna verify this?

-Chris

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