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- From: cjs@ausom.oz.au (Cameron Silver)
- Subject: Re: Scanlines??
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.233104.17343@ausom.oz.au>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 23:31:04 GMT
- References: <1992Nov13.192041.716@ualr.edu> <1992Nov15.110258.29066@cis.ohio-state.edu> <b_v1fhc@rpi.edu>
- Organization: AUSOM - The Apple Users Society of Melbourne
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- kentm@aix.rpi.edu (Michael V. Kent) writes:
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- >In article <1992Nov15.110258.29066@cis.ohio-state.edu> meekins@tortoise.cis.ohio-state.edu (Tim Meekins) writes:
- >>
- >>So, is is possible to change the palette halfway across a scanline,
- >>resulting in 32-color (actually, 16 colors on the left, 16 colors on the
- >>right)?
- >>
- >>The answer is no for two reasons:
- >>
- >>3. I only said two reasons, but here's a 3rd :) You can't read the
- >> horizontal position accurtely, so the point of palette change on
- >> a scanline could be quite a few pixels off, making the colors change
- >> at the wrong place.
-
- >I make no quibbles about points one and two, but I've seen some damned im-
- >pressive border animation that was only a few pixels wide. FTA's Split
- >Demo was impressive, but there was another group whose name escapes me at
- >the moment who did things even more impressive. Isn't the same horizontal
- >positioning used for border animation as would be for palette switching?
-
- >Mike
-
- >--
- >Michael Kent kentm@rpi.edu
- >McDonnell Douglas Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
-
- >Tute Screwed Aero Class of '92 Apple II Forever !!
- I just downloaded an animation disk. It had Poms 48,49,50 as well as Toolbax
- mags 1-6 ... andway .. Toolbox Mag 3 has a music player (like soundsmith,
- soniq tracker/mod zap .. all the usually ones) in the bottom border of the
- screen ... At first I didn't realize .. but it's pritty impressive! .. Different
- colours too!
-
- --
- Cameron Silver
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