Re: [Atari800-users] Atari800-users Digest, Vol 107, Issue 3

[Chris C. <chr...@gm...>]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 11:33 AM <
ata...@li...> wrote:

>
> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 08:33:16 -0700
> From: Kay Savetz <ke...@sa...>
> To: ata...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Atari800-users] colors
> Message-ID:
>         <CAJAWWXqrukkJ9H2=
> EFZ...@ma...>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>
> Because the way the settings work on the two systems are completely
> different. I don't know how to make them the same.
>

I am a deep-diving engineer, so the following may be "a bit too much" by
some people's standards, but bear with me...

Clearly, at some time someone figured out -- dare I say
"reverse-engineered?" possibly-suffcient specs seem to appear in the Atari
Hardware Manual) -- how CTIA and GTIA generated colors, in order to create
a reasonable/proper palette for Atari800 in the first place.  Could the
same process simply be revisited to select appropriate RGB equivalents
for *whatever
*platform on which one finds oneself?  I confess that, this process
presumably having been done once, "in the beginning," it's not clear to me
why we find ourselves needing to tweak it.

Chris