> they're > just abusing composite NTSC to induce artifact colors. This is in fact how the Apple > II itself generates color, and was a technique used by a number of Sega > Genesis/Megadrive developers to get more colors than its anemic 512-color palette > provided, so applying it to another composite NTSC system should come as little > surprise to anyone.
Lots of CGA games use artifact patterns to get 16 colours on CGA monitors. Nobody's ever used them to get 1K colours before, though - there are quite a few tricks necessary to do that.
> > Oh and who is going to stand up and volunteer to fix the MESS IBM 5150 driver so it > > can run this beast? > > Nobody.
Well, actually... I have an ongoing project to make a cycle-exact 8088 emulator (that I will have a bit more time for now I'm done making the demo). MESS will be welcome to use this code once it's done.
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