RE: Battlezone Director's Cut?

> Specifically, somebody had noticed that some Atari screenshots used
> red
> only for the score and radar. Everything else was overlay green.
>
> The 65536 dollar question is whether this is how the programmers at
> Atari
> wanted it to look. Since color Quadrascan (tm) monitors weren't
> available
> yet, I would say this is how it should have been but I can't read
> minds.
>
> Does anybody here (Jess? Clay? Ferris? Anybody?) know for sure?
>
Nothing I remember in particular about that one. Travis Haagen might
have more information on it. The only sort-of on topic trivia I can
think of was that they had to get rid of the overlays entirely when they
built the prototype cocktail BattleZone since the screen flipped.

(I can see where for volume production reasons they'd probably just want
to have two "strips" of film to attach together rather than any cutting
and shaping. I wonder why Atari never screen printed color onto clear
plastic to "spot color" stuff like scores and other fixed-location
objects...)

-Clay
Received on Mon Aug 24 09:45:13 1998