Subject: Re: [stella] Syncing without WSYNC From: "B. Watson" <atari@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 09:34:54 -0400 (EDT) |
On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Chris Wilkson wrote: > > WHAHAHAHA!!!!! There's never any end! Ok, ok...I've been hacking on the > interlaced video thing again, so I'm a bit crazed at the moment. But I > did manage to get both Field 0 and Field 1 to be recognizable. (Anyone > who starts with "How to Draw a Playfield" is only seeing Field 1.) I > just haven't gotten the pair to interlace yet. > > -Chris > That's something I've always wondered about: NTSC (and PAL?) standard says 30 interlaced frames/second, but the 2600 (and the 800, and the commodores, etc.) instead draw 60 frames, non-interlaced.. so why don't TV stations switch into that mode during the weather section on the news? I haven't actually watched any TV in maybe 10 years (except movies), but when I did watch it, I always noticed how horrible the weather map graphics looked, even compared to the graphics on an Atari 800... Of course, they had a blue-screen setup with a weatherman superimposed, which I couldn't do on my Atari, but still... I'd trade the (apparent) resolution of interlaced video for the stable picture of non-interlaced, any day. I guess I should mention here, that I really don't understand how a TV signal works. Just in case it wasn't obvious from the paragraph above :) B. --- If a trainstation is the place where trains stop, what is a workstation? - Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ Unsub & more at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/
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