Re: A83: silver 83+ greyscale

To: assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: A83: silver 83+ greyscale
From: Harper Maddox <gte172i@prism.gatech.edu>
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 11:28:44 -0500
In-Reply-To: <41200112911558359@buffbody.com>
Reply-To: assembly-83@lists.ticalc.org


processor speed does not equate to display speed.
to lessen the flicker of grayscale the display controller would also need 
to be sped up.

-harper

At 07:15 PM 1/8/01 -0600, you wrote:

>There is a program at
>http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/143/14329.html that can do up
>to 8-level greyscale on the 83+ with basically no flicker.  If we had a
>faster cpu and slowed down the fastcopy or whatever the programmer used,
>wouldn't we be able to achieve greyscale in an actuall game?  I mean the
>greyscale worked exactly the same but there would be more time for the cpu
>to do actuall game stuff.  Also... will the interrupt on the silver 83+
>still come every 1/200th of a second?
>
>_____________________________________________
>Free email with personality! Over 200 domains!
>http://www.MyOwnEmail.com

References:

A83: silver 83+ greyscale

From: "Joe Pemberton" <dArkSk8eR@buffbody.com>