Re: [Atari800-users] NTSC palette

[Piotr F. <pf...@op...>]

Petr Stehlik wrote:

> I'd suggest something like this:
> 
> rename jakub.act to pal_default.act
> rename default.act to pal_whatever1.act
> rename real.act to pal_whatever2.act
> 
> and create at least ntsc_default.act
> 
I suggest avoiding "default", because it changes in time.
Also, I think that default.act is NTSC-ish.

Perry McFarlane wrote:

> The NTSC palettes that I looked at on Atariage had only 128 colours. 

Yes, the only exception is orig_stella_NTSC, which, as I wrote,
is identical to our default.act.

> The NTSC composite video emulator doesn't use a palette as such but the
> colours it generates are supposed to look like NTSC colours.  I still
> need to tweak it a bit. It could be used to generate a palette.

There's currently a discussion at the atariarea forum about tiny vertical
stripes between luminace levels 7 and 8, and sub-pixel effects of changing
color registers. The emulator would need a higher resolution and more
computing power for these artifacts. But we will need to support the current
336x240 mode (and screenshots), so palette files are needed, even if the future
is full NTSC and PAL emulation.

Piotr