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Mike
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Colour Test

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Hi, y'all!

Here's a small test program, Colour Test, which can be use to judge the quality of the video output w.r.t. resolution and colour transitions (download):

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It runs on an unexpanded VIC-20. After a short wait, the program first displays fine vertical lines in all the 8 possible foreground colours in a table over all 16 possible background colours. A key press replaces the lines with a checkerboard pattern (see above), and a second key press shows thicker lines.

The S-Video mod really makes a difference here!

Greetings,

Michael
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Cool! Just one problem. You misspelled color. ;-)

:P
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Post by Mike »

Jeff-20 wrote:You misspelled color. ;)
... and you misspelt 'misspelled'. :P

You know, I'm from the other side of the pond. :mrgreen:
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hehe. It's hard to master the Engrish language.
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Post by Boray »

You should be happy he didn't spell it "farben". (If I remember correctly from the Deutch in school.) :wink:
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Post by Jeff-20 »

I think the color/colour joke started even before Mike joined us. Still funny to me.
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Post by orion70 »

See also HERE.
Colourful joke. :P
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