Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!necntc!ames!ucbcad!zen!dorothy.Berkeley.EDU!c9c-eh From: c9c-eh@dorothy.Berkeley.EDU (Warner Young (WHY)) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Colorburst Message-ID: <5273@zen.berkeley.edu> Date: 9 Dec 87 20:45:19 GMT References: <8712082256.AA29067@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <1359@saturn.ucsc.edu> Sender: news@zen.berkeley.edu Reply-To: c9c-eh@dorothy.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Warner Young (WHY)) Organization: Safety Seal Stamps Stand Setting Sail Lines: 35 In article <1359@saturn.ucsc.edu> koreth@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Steven Grimm) writes: >In article <8712082256.AA29067@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> IHLS400@INDYCMS (Holly Lee Stowe) writes: >>For those of you who have expressed an interest in Spectrum 512 and >>"that other program", I have a copy of Colorburst 3000 from Beery'sBit. >>(Not too difficult considering that Andrew Beery works at our local >>Atari dealership and is a member of the local user group...) >If it uses the same display routine that the Colorburst demo posted to the >net, save your money. That was a flickery demo that gave me a headache after >a few minutes, and certainly did NOT give the illusion of having more than >the usual number of colors on the screen. Yuck. > > |Steven Grimm | >-+ ARPA: koreth@ucscb.ucsc.edu | > | UUCP: ...!ucbvax!ucscc!ssyx!koreth| >-+ ______________________________| As far as I know, only one Colorburst demo was posted on the net. I downloaded that one, and I was actually impressed. It DID give the illusion of having more colors on the screen (16 shades/intensities/whatevers of blue, 16 of red, and 16 of purple). I don't know why green wasn't chosen instead, as that would have been a better "proof" that the program could show all those 3000+ colors. There was slight flickering, but only in one column of colors. On the whole, it worked really well. And the plus side, if Colorburst works by switching the display screen, is that it doesn't hog CPU time the way that Spectrum does. But then, what do I know? Disclaimer: I'm not associated with \ /\ /arner the latest revision of SANITY. \/ \_/ Address: ucbvax!dorothy!c9c-eh |oung c9c-eh@dorothy.Berkeley.EDU \__| "color, color, glorious color!"