Christmas is coming ....soon another ATARIAGE GREETINGS cart?

[lucifershalo]

are there any plans for a new ATARIAGE GREETINGS game?

Edited September 24, 2007 by lucifershalo

[PressureCooker2600]

i sure as hell hope so....

 

I have both of these. Toyshop Trouble and Reindeer Rescue are two of the best homebrews around. I can't wait to see what may be coming soon.

[Gateway]

Don't forget Holiday Qb and The Holiday Greetings pinup girl carts.

[PressureCooker2600]

I never got either of those.

 

I coulda gotten Holiday Qb but I didn't. I'll get one someday.

[Video]

I only have the 03 Christmas pinup cart. Not a game per say, but it was damn cool (and as far as I know, the only cart form demonstration of chronocolor interlaceing)

 

I hope they do another this year, I missed the other three. And now that I have a (better paying) job, and not so many bills, maybe I can pick one up this year.

Edited September 24, 2007 by Video

[lucifershalo]

Don't tell me that nobody knows if there is one coming or not.....

[Albert]

Don't tell me that nobody knows if there is one coming or not.....

[PressureCooker2600]

(and as far as I know, the only cart form demonstration of chronocolor interlaceing)

 

Wasn't Atari Charles hundred dollar cart with a Tronman picture a demo of chronocolor interlacing?

 

Did anyone here even get one of those?

 

And didn't Andrew D. come up with that technique.......or was the first to utilize it to it's full potential?

[lucifershalo]

Don't tell me that nobody knows if there is one coming or not.....

Albert!! you cheeky guy

[Wester]

I'm still looking for some, see sig. I took my Thrift store laptop to work to get last years, I'm looking foreward to this years.

[Andrew Davie]

(and as far as I know, the only cart form demonstration of chronocolor interlaceing)

 

Wasn't Atari Charles hundred dollar cart with a Tronman picture a demo of chronocolor interlacing?

 

Did anyone here even get one of those?

 

And didn't Andrew D. come up with that technique.......or was the first to utilize it to it's full potential?

 

 

The Tronman cart was a rip-off using my original free public-domain code for the dancing baby demo and the Build Your Own Greeting Cart. Only the bankswitching method had been changed, and it was able to display 7 images, I think. The images in that cart were in my opinion very poor quality because the image conversion wasn't done correctly.

 

ChronoColour carts such as the Christmas GreetingCart were much better visually.

 

The ChronoColour technique came about when Thomas Jentzcsh and I became interested in colour display techniques, and we independantly worked on different systems, but were feeding off each others' ideas and work. Probably ChronoColour produced the best quality in the end, but there were definitely different techniques, all viable.

 

ChronoColour multiplexes three single-bit dithered frames for the red/green/blue components of a colour image, which are interleaved with each other such that the three frames consist of alternating red scanline, green scanline, blue scanline (one from each frame). These interleaved frames are then played in sequence while at the same time changing the colour of each scanline to either red or green or blue both on a line-by-line basis and on a frame-by-frame basis. The colour on any line cycles red one frame, green the next, blue the next, and colours on successive lines within a frame are red, green, blue, red, green, blue, etc. Put all of that together and you get your ChronoColour images.

 

There's a document at http://www.taswegian.com/greetingcart.html with an explanation.