Nothing really new for us, but some nice video captures from real hardware (look after 6:50).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTKckoSj-OE
Hue is all wrong (a common NTSC problem), aspect ratio is different with a smaller border, and it has "bright black" that shows up as brown!
Interesting if you are into image preservation, paletes, sRGB colours, etc.
Timex Sinclair 2068 - The American ZX Spectrum
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Re: Timex Sinclair 2068 - The American ZX Spectrum
Unfortunately he doesn't know very much about the machine. The bright black is not brown -- it is bright black. What has happened is the varactors that control the colour settings have drifted with time and need recalibration.
Re: Timex Sinclair 2068 - The American ZX Spectrum
If I remember Chris Smith's explanation correctly, the "wrong" border size is due to the way NTSC works. I remember noticing it on every single TS2068 I tried over here.
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Re: Timex Sinclair 2068 - The American ZX Spectrum
The difference border size between PAL and NTSC is due to the timing differences between the two. At a 60Hz field rate, there is less time so the boarder is smaller compared to a 50Hz field rate.
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Re: Timex Sinclair 2068 - The American ZX Spectrum
Are there any games that use Timex Sinclair 2068 extra video modes?
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Back in the day, one and probably the only commercial game release to make use of the mode 1 video and also the internal AY sound was Frogger (https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/4 ... ex/Frogger).
Mode 1 is difficult to spot due to the poor graphics, but paying attention you can see there is no color clash.
Mode 1 is difficult to spot due to the poor graphics, but paying attention you can see there is no color clash.