Posted By
Litwr
on 2017-01-13
05:58:10
|  Re: VDC Challenge!
There are several new graphic modes discovered for Amstrad CPC at 2016 - http://www.cpcwiki.eu/forum/applications/perfect-pix/. So it can challenge Plus4 superiority. I checked Perfect Pix manual and found that mode B0 is a kind of an easy trick. It just shows two pictures simultaneously. This is easy to implement with any computer but the proper converter required. Mode B1 is more tricky and it changes palette along raster lines. Plus4 may change 2 colors along raster line in the multicolor mode up to 14 times to get similar effect. But it is impossible for the bad lines. I can imagine an image without bad lines at all, with the fixed attributes. This gives 2 permanent colors and 2 changeable colors - 16 colors per a line. To write a converter to such format will be uneasy task. The advantage of this mode is in absence of interlace flicker. Mode R uses interlace so it can be realized with Plus4 too... IMHO fliconv makes about the same effects.
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