GDMike Posted May 30, 2020 Author Share Posted May 30, 2020 (edited) Im in the process of making words for my library: I'm doing colors and not all color combinations are readable. So, do I make commands for all colors or only the ones that are readable, here I made a command, call color(1) This photo black chars But red looks horrible with my call color(6) Edited May 30, 2020 by GDMike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOME AUTOMATION Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 (edited) Page III-6 of the User's Reference Guide, lists "HIGH-RESOLUTION COLOR COMBINATIONS" It looks like maybe you're trying to use GRAPHICS MODE color methods. You can only have 1 foreground and 1 background color in TEXT MODE. Maybe you set the wrong register, I don't recognize that failure mode, specifically. Edited May 30, 2020 by HOME AUTOMATION punctuation 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDMike Posted May 30, 2020 Author Share Posted May 30, 2020 (edited) Correct, I'm using just that. Don't let jmp aaex bother you, it's part of something else And my B @AAEX is my reloading R11 because I'm in a BL to my color routine. Edited May 30, 2020 by GDMike 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOME AUTOMATION Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 Say... You're not makin' fun of my name, are you??? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDMike Posted May 30, 2020 Author Share Posted May 30, 2020 Quote I'm in text mode but I guess not all colors are readable... actually, I'm not finding many at all that I can use. I'll do a video soon on my progress. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOME AUTOMATION Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 O.K. THEN! I wont be insulted! 0731 light green on black background... text mode... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDMike Posted May 30, 2020 Author Share Posted May 30, 2020 (edited) Yeah, if I do that it looks bad on my screen using real hardware, but if I take a photo then it looks good on camera. I'll try to get a video VID_20200529_220434029.mp4 Edited May 30, 2020 by GDMike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOME AUTOMATION Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 I'm using Win994a... pressing PrtSc... pasting to Paint. Personal favorite... white on black... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDMike Posted May 30, 2020 Author Share Posted May 30, 2020 Yes, I'm getting good results with higher value numbers against a black background, makes sense. But my lower number values are unreadable with just about any background, so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDMike Posted May 30, 2020 Author Share Posted May 30, 2020 Ok, I've gotten 6 colors with black background completed as they are CALL COLOR(1) through 6 All accessed by typing them into the command line. That's all for this Evening.. time for backup.. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOME AUTOMATION Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 5 hours ago, GDMike said: Im in the process of making words for my library: I'm doing colors and not all color combinations are readable. So, do I make commands for all colors or only the ones that are readable, here I made a command, call color(1) This photo black chars But red looks horrible with my call color(6) Confirmed! The real TI shows an awful mosaic pattern on many of the color combos when viewed in text mode. I wonder if the LCD monitor is behind this. Do you have a MINI MEMORY? I have a little trick that lets you explore this easily. Letting you change VDP register settings and auto-increment them manually. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+TheBF Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 8 hours ago, GDMike said: Ok, I've gotten 6 colors with black background completed as they are CALL COLOR(1) through 6 All accessed by typing them into the command line. That's all for this Evening.. time for backup.. Hey GDMike not sure if this helps. You can use Forth to quickly experiment with screen colors in 40 column mode. If you download Camel99 Forth you can start it on your real TI99. Then you can just type this kind of thing to see combinations. DECIMAL : TINT 7 VWTR ; 1 9 TINT 3 4 TINT 1 12 TINT ( ETC.) You only need 1 file, CAMEL99 from the zip. ( it will go looking for the START file when it boots but it will just complain and then you're in the Forth interpreter. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDMike Posted May 30, 2020 Author Share Posted May 30, 2020 I'll try it out in forth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDMike Posted May 30, 2020 Author Share Posted May 30, 2020 (edited) Same results regarding color combinations testing, and I kinda figured that as I've run into this before. But there are still lots of color combinations still to Choose. Black chars on just about any background as well. Lost my gotek drive..I dunno what happened. Restored to a different thumb drive because the old one (8gb) is still acting up, Even after format. But nothing lost. I'm an avid supporter of constant backups. Lol Where's my Tipi? Now I'm needing it. Edited May 30, 2020 by GDMike 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+TheBF Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 7 hours ago, GDMike said: Same results regarding color combinations testing, and I kinda figured that as I've run into this before. But there are still lots of color combinations still to Choose. Black chars on just about any background as well. Lost my gotek drive..I dunno what happened. Restored to a different thumb drive because the old one (8gb) is still acting up, Even after format. But nothing lost. I'm an avid supporter of constant backups. Lol Where's my Tipi? Now I'm needing it. Ya there no surprises with the colors. It's just faster to be able to see what you like interactively with a command line IMHO. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDMike Posted May 31, 2020 Author Share Posted May 31, 2020 (edited) Well, I came up with a new algorithm I'll put to work today, since I thought of it in my sleep. It will reduce my color codes to a savings of code writing by more than half it's usage currently. But means I gotta go to the beginning of the "call color" source code and delete everything after it. Oh well, I'll spend the day doing and confirming today. It's always exciting when I can find a way to reduce my code. I always do my code by long hand, I call it, then try reducing my code later once it works. It's always a good feeling when its re-evaluated. VID_20200531_121543784.mp4 Edited May 31, 2020 by GDMike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Lee Stewart Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 On 5/29/2020 at 9:27 PM, GDMike said: I'm in text mode but I guess not all colors are readable... actually, I'm not finding many at all that I can use. I'll do a video soon on my progress. FYI, there are 15 non-transparent colors and 14 of them can be used as foreground (FG) on any given background (BG), making for 15 * 14 = 210 possible, more-or-less readable, combinations. According to page 242 of the TI-99/4A User’s Reference Guide, there are 53 “high-resolution color combinations” among them: Spoiler You can use SCREEN in TurboForth, TI Forth and fbForth to change the FG/BG colors in Text mode. SCREEN takes one number on the stack that must contain the FG color in the MSB and the BG color in the LSB: HEX 0F4 SCREEN <----white on dark blue Here is code to run through all of the possible, readable combinations every 1/2 second in fbForth 2.0 by typing SCREEN-STEP : Spoiler HEX : SEC/60 ( n -- ) \ n = sixtieths of a second 7FFF OVER U< ABORT" Exceeds 32767/60 s!" \ 32767/60-second timer limit 2 * \ n*2 to count seconds/60 because timer inc is 2 0 83D6 ! \ zero screen timer BEGIN DUP \ keep copy of n*120 for next go-round 83D6 @ \ current timer value U< \ timer exceeds input time? UNTIL DROP \ clean up stack ; \ cycle through all possible FG/BG combinations except TRANSPARENT : SCREEN-STEP 010 1 DO \ cycle BG colors except TRANSPARENT 010 1 DO \ cycle FG colors except TRANSPARENT J I = 0= IF \ insure FG and BG not same color I 4 SLA \ FG nybble J + SCREEN \ add BG nybble and set colors 01E SEC/60 \ 30 decimal..wait 1/2 second THEN LOOP LOOP 0F4 SCREEN \ restore my screen to 0F4 (244 decimal) ; DECIMAL And here it is for TurboForth: Spoiler HEX \ Needed for TurboForth... CODE: INTS \ briefly allow interrupts <<<TurboForth>>> 0300 0002 \ LIMI 2 0300 0000 \ LIMI 0 ;CODE : SEC/60 ( n -- ) \ n = sixtieths of a second 7FFF OVER U< ABORT" Exceeds 32767/60 s!" \ 32767/60-second timer limit 2 * \ n*2 to count seconds/60 because timer inc is 2 0 83D6 ! \ zero screen timer BEGIN INTS \ briefly allow interrupts for TurboForth... DUP \ keep copy of n*120 for next go-round 83D6 @ \ current timer value U< \ timer exceeds input time? UNTIL DROP \ clean up stack ; \ cycle through all possible FG/BG combinations except TRANSPARENT : SCREEN-STEP 010 1 DO \ cycle BG colors except TRANSPARENT 010 1 DO \ cycle FG colors except TRANSPARENT J I = 0= IF \ insure FG and BG not same color I 4 ( SLA) << \ FG nybble..TurboForth uses << J + SCREEN \ add BG nybble and set colors 01E SEC/60 \ 30 decimal..wait 1/2 second THEN LOOP LOOP 0F4 SCREEN \ restore my screen to 0F4 (244 decimal) ; DECIMAL You can change the interval between color changes by changing the hex number in front of SEC/60 in the definition of SCREEN-STEP from 01E to 03C for 1 second, 078 for 2 seconds, etc. ...lee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDMike Posted May 31, 2020 Author Share Posted May 31, 2020 (edited) 34 minutes ago, Lee Stewart said: FYI, there are 15 non-transparent colors and 14 of them can be used as foreground (FG) on any given background (BG), making for 15 * 14 = 210 possible, Yes, but not all are clear. As a matter of fact, for me anyway, all chars against a black background aren't clear, as pixelation of different colors show. But black chars against any screen color other than Black, look ok. I'll experiment. I'm pretty sure color >1 on about any background except black background would be ok to start with. Edited May 31, 2020 by GDMike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Lee Stewart Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 32 minutes ago, GDMike said: Yes, but not all are clear. I'll experiment. I'm pretty sure color >1 on about any background would be ok to start with. Did you open the spoilers in my post? ...lee 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDMike Posted May 31, 2020 Author Share Posted May 31, 2020 15 minutes ago, Lee Stewart said: Did you open the spoilers in my post? ...lee I did, and I see that. But I'm not in a position yet to run. My code is only capable of pushing 9 colors at the moment. (Reading call color (x) instead of reading: call color (xx). So I'm having to mod my code before getting to large scale color combinations. Lol You are way ahead of me..<grin> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOME AUTOMATION Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 (edited) Troupe... meet EASY BUG... Spoiler EASY BUG... meet The Troupe! M80D4 ENTER than F0 ENTER... PRESS "." than V8712(first viewable combo) "ENTER" "SPACE" or "ENTER" will increment a register PRESSING "-" will decrement... Edited May 31, 2020 by HOME AUTOMATION 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDMike Posted May 31, 2020 Author Share Posted May 31, 2020 (edited) 12 minutes ago, HOME AUTOMATION said: Troupe... meet EASY BUG... Reveal hidden contents EASY BUG... meet The Troupe! M80D4 ENTER PRESS "." than V8712 (first viewable combo) "ENTER" "SPACE" or "ENTER" will increment a register PRESSING "-" will decrement... It's not that big a deal for me to go to a debugger or explorer (which is easier to me), at this time,because I've got bigger fish to fry with my code that I'm actually not ready for for my combo colors yet. Ty though, forth also provided it as well. But I'll probably opt for explorer when the time comes. VID_20200531_170643324.mp4 Edited May 31, 2020 by GDMike 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDMike Posted May 31, 2020 Author Share Posted May 31, 2020 (edited) I wonder what key I hit that deleted that line and inverted some character? I'll try to recreate Weird Edited May 31, 2020 by GDMike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDMike Posted May 31, 2020 Author Share Posted May 31, 2020 (edited) Update: found the bug I'm using that area below row 24 VDP R0,960-976 And I wasn't clearing it after using it thus the key I hit was a paste copied line. It caused a paste of a previous copied line to be pasted, or whatever was sitting at my temporary holding area,(960-976), at the place the cursor was sitting at the time of the paste. Fixed Old info below: Was able to duplicate one time and never again, reboot didn't recreate I'll watch for it. Edited May 31, 2020 by GDMike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDMike Posted May 31, 2020 Author Share Posted May 31, 2020 1 hour ago, HOME AUTOMATION said: Troupe... meet EASY BUG... Reveal hidden contents EASY BUG... meet The Troupe! M80D4 ENTER than F0 ENTER... PRESS "." than V8712(first viewable combo) "ENTER" "SPACE" or "ENTER" will increment a register PRESSING "-" will decrement... F-troupe ? Hmmm.. I resemble that remark. Sometimes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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