Like the earlier models all used screws (or in the case of the 1200, little pop rivets) to hold the shielding together/to the case. On a side note, taking apart all of the 8bits through their various generations, you really can tell that Atari started making them cheaper and cheaper. In the other thread on artifacting, didn't you point out that the colors were different depending on if you had the Floppy vs Cart version of Flight Simulator II? I should leave my XEGS on for a while and see if the warm up fixes the coloring issues. Anything else is just academic poetry:Īlso, Ultima-IV serves the same purpose (read the text, in mentions color explicitly): If it does NOT show BLUE/ORANGE-REDDISH artifacting (which is also how it looks in real life), then you know your machine's rendering is, indeed, a deviation from the original output. Or said in a different way, what the original AUTHOR of the title/s intended the rendering to be.Īs an example, and as already mentioned before, we can look at how Flight Simulator II's cockpit is rendered by your machine. Instead, it is the PERCEPTUAL rendering what counts.

It is not the individual colorimetric differences that each machines exhibits what we need to focus on.

Ha, seemed it was a shot in the dark which of the two versions I tried would look even remotely right, with Exodus only looking almost right on the 130XE. I like my trees to look bluish green or green thank you very muchĪh, but what is the explanation that the different versions of Ultima IV have different colors on the same system? Yet some are fine on others? As far as I have seen, Ultima IV doesn't ask or have any sort of color calibration. I swapped my XL's cap for whatever was in the XE. an 800XL messes up Jingle disk colors, where as on an XE they look fine. this left me to use a fresh copy and set the color or flip a switch I had in the computer to swap the caps. the TV artifact was opposite due to the decode and or tube pattern. I like my trees to look bluish green or green thank you very much Edited Apby _The Doctor_Ĥ) I had a NEC monitor and a Goldstar television using the same computer gave my starship as orange on one and not on the other. SO try a brand new copy from a never before used disk image and it will ask if you see this color or that and only use that disk thereafter with the computer you chose the color setting on.Ĥ) I had a NEC monitor and a Goldstar television using the same computer gave my starship as orange on one and not on the other. what to do and or explainationsĢ) there is a capacitor you can change to adjust this a little bit, I no longer remember what the caps number is and what not, but I did cover this using Jingle disk as the exampleģ) A fresh copy of the game will test the tv/monitor/computer on some titles and ask what you see and adjust the colors, it will then save it to disk and will show that color scheme forever after, making more than one computer look wrong because it save the color scheme which is wrong for that particular machine. Ultima IV - Britannia.ATR Ultima IV - Program.ATR Ultima IV - Towne.ATR Ultima IV - Underworld.ATR ULTIMA IV - QUEST OF THE AVATAR (1985)(ORIGIN)(DISK 1 OF 4).ATR ULTIMA IV - QUEST OF THE AVATAR (1985)(ORIGIN)(DISK 2 OF 4).ATR ULTIMA IV - QUEST OF THE AVATAR (1985)(ORIGIN)(DISK 3 OF 4).ATR ULTIMA IV - QUEST OF THE AVATAR (1985)(ORIGIN)(DISK 4 OF 4).ATRġ) you need to calibrate all of your Atari fleet and then. I initially thought it was a PAL/NTSC issue, but it doesn't even seem to be consistent between Atari models!įor fun, I also took a look at Ultima III, and it seems to have the same issue (though apparently I only took a picture of the 130XE which looked almost correct, the trees are red, but the water is blue at least.) It's not even consistent between the XEGS and 130XE (it's annoying that the XEGS requires you to pull off the entire shield to get to the POT for the color.)Īnyone else with a plethora of Ataris ever seen anything like this? At least some of them look right I'd ran into this weird issue with two different sets of Ultima IV ATRs that I have, where one seemed to have the correct colors, but the other did not. So of course after having completed the SuperVideo 2.1 mod for the 1200XL, I decided to run it through it's paces and check some of my favorite games.

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