>> If you ever plan on building a Color Card convertor you're going to need to
>> recreate these circuits since Boxing Bugs intentionally overdrives the X/Y
>> signals, since it was known no damage would result, and software clipping is
>> slow, and a pain.
>
>So how does the Color Card interpret the 12-bit color data it get from the
>CPU ??? This has been bugging me (no pun intended) for some time.
From when I looked at it-- all it does is latch the 12 bit "color" data and
use a simple resisitor-based D/A to convert it to voltages for the color
guns. The game board turns the colors on and off as needed just like the
intensity boards.
-Clay
Clayton N. Cowgill Engineering Manager
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Received on Thu Aug 7 09:16:23 1997
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