Subject: Re: Aw: Re: [stella] Maze Craze and 650x From: "TwoHeaded Software" <adavie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 09:54:51 +1000 |
> >I think this might be possible if you're willing to tolerate some > >flicker. Display each brick of one color in one frame, each brick of the > >second color in the second frame, and so on. Three or four colors would > >probably be the limit before it starts looking bad. > > Hm, I always do forget to consider flickering when considering the 2600's > graphical capabilities. But it really doesn't seem feasible here; an area > as large as an Arkanoid wall is going to be hard on the eyes even at 30 Hz > flicker, and positively headache-inducing beyond that. Time for people to dig up my 4-colour playfield demo 'PUSH', from the archives long ago. It is quite feasible to have reasonable looking colour playfields - and this is what first popped into my mind when reading the above thread. Although successfully demonstrating the concept, PUSH wasn't well-enough received to further the concept. The emulators show up flicker too-well. TVs should reduce that perception of flicker when interlacing colour ('chronocolor' - heh!), as the phosphour has a much longer persistance time than a monitor. My personal opinion is that 30Hz flicker is OK. Cheers A - Andrew Davie, TwoHeaded Software adavie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ Unsub & more at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/
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