Re: [cc65] Colormania (was: TGI summary)

From: Oliver Schmidt <ol.sc1web.de>
Date: 2009-10-28 12:37:35
Hi,

> The Atari 8-bit has quite a few strange modes, with various different color
> registers that can be used.  I haven't really looked at the TGI specs up to
> this point, but I don't think it makes sense to try to force all the Atari
> modes into some convoluted TGI paradigm.  In my opinion, a few modes should
> be implemented for cross-compatibility, basically only ANTIC mode E 160x192,
> 4 colors) and F (320x192 monochrome).
>
> Most anything serious won't use the TGI drivers anyway.

A typical cc65 target allows to select palette entries from few
predefined values - or doesn't have palette support at all! Therefore
I believe that everything dealing with RGB values (or Hue/Sat or CMYK
or...) is far beyond what TGI is about.

Best, Oliver
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