Re: A83: Color
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Re: A83: Color
Yeah, you can probably get a couple of lines if you try hard enough...but I
think thats it...oh well
-Dan
----- Original Message -----
From: <Jared173@aol.com>
To: <assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 1998 12:35 AM
Subject: Re: A83: Color
>
>Ha, I originally asked the color question, I'm glad that I at least have
some
>support now :) So anyway, in talking about those crashes, my calculator
>recently crashed where I had a solid, undoubtedly blue line about 3/4 of
the
>way down the screen. The only thing that worked on the calculator was
turning
>it on and off. When you turned it on, the blue line would immediately
>apperar. When you turned it off, it would slowly fade away over about 2
>seconds. The weird part is that it disappeared from the center out. It
would
>disappear to something that looked like the outlines of the pixels, so the
>horizontal line turned into a bunch of unfilled, outlined, blue squares. I
>didn't think the screen is capable of doing anything less than a pixel.
But
>anyway, I impressed a bunch of people at school with this. So obviously
the
>color isn't a miracle because of all the occurrences with crashes. It
seems
>like there'd surely be some way to control this.
>-Jared
>http://members.aol.com/jared173/calc/tivault.htm
>
>Oh yeah, and don't yell at me if the outlines of the pixels are completely
>impossible, I had a lot of people verify it, though.
>
>
>
>
><< >
> >At 22:15 1998-12-28 -0500, you wrote:
> >> I was amazed. The End. (Oh and
then
> I
> >>was pissed cause my program crashed...) Anyways you get the idea,
some
> >>type of color is possible, but I dunno how... -Dan
> >
> >What you did, was that you accidently changed some control values in the
> >lcd controller.. I have seen this for myself..
> >there is unfortunatly no way to control this though.. or to make anything
> >but horisontal lines.. so it is unfortunatly not very useful.. if you
> >looked closely on that line, you would probably se that it was solid to..
> >not divided into pixels.. (if I don't remember wrong.. I don't own an 83
> >anylonger.. in fact.. I never did :) I just borrowed it)
> >
> >//Olle
> >>