[Coco] The myth of the Coco3 256 color mode :)

Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) retrocanada76 at gmail.com
Thu Apr 18 12:43:14 EDT 2013


i do have a Dell 2001FP now :) gonna test it someday. But maybe I made a
mistake and didn't test composite on the LCD.


On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 12:26 PM, John W. Linville
<linville at tuxdriver.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 11:00:32AM -0400, Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) wrote:
> > Not only on CMP monitors but CMP CRT monitors. I tried once running the
> 256
> > colors demo on my LCD screen (using composite input) and it sucks.
> > Apparently all the fast switching screens don't work with lcd, at least
> my
> > LCD.
>
> Must be your LCD -- it works fine on my Dell 2001FP.  Anyway, there
> is no "fast switching" involved with this mode.
>
> FWIW, the "hack" is to the composite video _signal_ (i.e. not anything
> specific to a CRT).  So the mode should display on any compliant NTSC
> composite video monitor.
>
> John
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