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Now I'm hopelessly Not Sure (about green and purple artifacts emitting from One of my Ataris). My 800XL was reserved for Work, and I solved Ultima IV on my model 800.

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The Green and Purple scheme results from a generator phase shift of half a pixel. Of course the various video generators in Atari can be phase tuned to make different artifact colors. Wikipedia has an article named "Composite Artifact Colors", subheading "Hardware", Atari 8bit gets one paragraph, the last paragraph, and it says to expect "blue and red" colors.

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Its author may have been an Englishman who needed to research how to draw, and what he read might still be online today. The oldest most primitive emulator I have from 1998-99 has only one color scheme: blue and rich red, Ultima IV gets red water and blue terrain.

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There's so many draw errors in pre 2006 artifacting that rather than patch things the author made "new" artifacting but with silly pastel colors, and introduced new bugs which never got fixed (see Stellar Shuttle). Why is Blue water (in Ultima IV) now termed a Reverse mode, and what's special about the date 2006 relative to Atari 8 bit for such a profound change to be made. 2006 and beyond saw the name change to "XL/XE" artifacting and then Blue Terrain!, the mode which draws Blue water in U4 is now called Reverse, and this is why Reverse XL/XE is listed first and so-called normal XL/XE colors is listed 2nd, because the list didn't change, only the names did. Hi res card games notoriously want reddish suitesīefore 2006, emulator "Atari800MacX" named its default artifact colors "Blue/Brown" and Ultima IV got blue water. Pinball Construction Set & files created by PCS Lode Runner, Championship Lode Runner - reversed? Hard Hat Mack - reversed programming & screenshots Galaxian by "XXL" (an Apple II conversion) Music Construction Set (in Utilities section) ATASCII Character Set is one such example! I want to tag Ultima here with a good list of other "High Resolution" programs having artifacting, not a complete list.įirst there are hi res program not meant to be seen with any artifacting, often made recently in our post-CRT era, or they intentionally draw hi res in such a laborious way as to minimize any artifacting. Unsurprisingly, my listings had mistakes - but so do the sources listings on the magazine websites! Most of those are the result of OCR, however.įor example here’s a comparison of my version of “Fast Banner” with the listing as presented on out what went wrong with artifacting has made a little mess of comments here, thanx for being understanding. I used a diff tool to compare my versions of the programs with the source listings I found on or. Since I was able to find the original listings, I thought it would be fun to check my work. When I tried to run the programs in Atari800MacX, I noticed that several didn’t quite work right. They probably came from other sources that aren’t searchable, like the ACE-St. I don’t think the other three are original programs.

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WAV format since it is a lossless format and wouldn’t distort the data.Ī page from “The best of ANTIC: an anthology” containing the Drop program.īy searching Google for snippets of code from each program, I was able to identify 7 of the 10 programs as type-in listings in various Compute! and ANTIC magazines and books. I carefully played back each side of the tape and recorded the audio in Amadeus Pro.

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I grabbed a boombox cassette player and connected its headphone jack to the auxiliary input on my Mac Pro.

I would print these on an Atari 825 dot-matrix printer, which I had proudly purchased from A-Z Used Computers with my own money. As a kid, I wrote lots of stories and essays for school in AtariWriter. I thought stories might be another possibility. At that time I was doing some rudimentary BASIC programming at school on Apple II computers. I used the Atari 8-bits most heavily while I was in elementary school and junior high. I hoped it might be my own original programming.

Alas, I got rid of most of it when I was in college.īut here was this little tape … perhaps my only tangible link to my old Atari 8-bit equipment.Įach side of the tape was only 10 minutes long. Last weekend, I was rummaging through my old Atari ST disks when I came across something I hadn’t noticed in 30 years: A cassette tape for my Atari 8-bit.Īs I have recounted before, I used hand-me-down Atari 800s, a 130XE, a 410 program recorder, and lots of other equipment and disks from family members when I was a kid before later graduating to the 16-bit ST series. Side 1 of an old cassette tape I used to store programs for my Atari 8-bit computers.