Here's a question that's been bothering me for a while. I asked on
the cvg mailing list, and no one could answer it for certain, so I'll
ask here. I looked at the Stella doc and some of the commented source
code available and couldn't find the answer.
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. I say this because it seems most
Atari games, particularly the early ones, *start* in the color-cycling
mode. Most third party games tend to only do it after they've been
sitting for a while. (If at all. I haven't done any experiments to
test whether they all do or not.)
If someone would be kind enough to answer this, I would be ever so
grateful. And I'll report back to the cvg mailing list. Thanks!
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