Posted By
MMS
on 2020-01-17
12:06:22
 |  Re: YoomBlazer - a new pic on Atari 8bit and Commodore plus/4
OFF here
maybe we need to open a new thread to this, like VDC VS TED  (then I will transfer my comments there)
1) Evidently the VDC can create high res pictures. I can say, that it can produce pictures with PC EGA resolution.
Still, the number of colors greatly limits VDC's potentials.
On EGA you can freely choose the 16 visible color from a 64 color palette. and they use it for color mixing with great results.
On VDC they stuck to the C64 palette, out of that 16 color there are 5 shades of grey (black, white and 3 greys).
Don't get me wrong, on C64 there are fantastic looking pictures and games, but not able to reach PC quality just because of the colors.
Certainly the attribute free color mixing on high resolution helps to create new virtual colors, but it is much easier on EGA, than on VDC.
Especially on colorful pictures those 16 colors are just not enough, and it creates some color patterns.
2) On TED the FLI HIRES keeps the 320 pixel horizontal resolution, but produced much more colors thn the original HIRES.
Really good combination, though certainly not reaching VDC resolution.
VDC alone had 64K RAM, as the whole Plus/4 machine
3) Could you try out these too on VDC?
I am curious about the result (in "VDC Challenge" slideshow you can check out the HFLI TED capabilities (it could be even more finetuned with hand)
With an improved image transfer tool you may create better results, and may create the "TED Challenge demo" on C128, haha!)
https://imgur.com/KoT0Rtp
https://imgur.com/20z0Kry
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