Re: [stella] I really need to buy a scope

Subject: Re: [stella] I really need to buy a scope
From: Chris Wilkson <ecwilkso@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 22:16:27 -0400
Side note...color 1 really shouldn't equal color 15.  It's a lazy way
of doing the motherboard calibration that was pioneered by the earliest
internet 2600 video hackers to become popular.  You should have 15
distinct colors plus gray.  But it's your choice.  :P

On Wed, 11 May 2005, Adam Wozniak wrote:

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> On Wed, 11 May 2005, Chris Wilkson wrote:
> > Due to capacitive coupling, the color pulse
> > that propagates through the chain at 3.579545 MHz will show up on
> > this line.  And because it passes though 15 stages of delay (15 or
> > so...I don't have my schematic in front of me) the pulse gets coupled
> > 15 (or so) times per cycle -> 53.693175 MHz.
> >
> > Hmm...looks like you have 14 stages of delay in your system.
>
> I expect 14.
>
> 4 bits of color
> minus one because Color 0 is white (no color)
> minus one because Color 1 is the same as Color 15
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