Although as I understand it was introduced intentionally by Steve Wozniak with the Apple II. When he fully understood NTSC timing *and* revised the circuitry after the first few production runs he was able to coax out not only orange and blue (like the CoCo) but also green and violet - in addition to white (two dots placed next to each other) and black (two 'blank' dots next to each other) generating six individual colors in a high resolution screen (280x192) and 15 in low-resolutions (40x48).
This works astonishingly well but of course TVs are less precise than color monitors which I guess where more common with the Apple II than the CoCo.
Color TV's were mostly used everywhere in those days... dedicated monitors were $300-600, which is about 3 times as much with today's inflation. Considering most of us only got the old 8-bits because mom and dad saw a great deal at Sears, we were lucky to have anything.
The TI came with an RF modulator, rather like the ones that came with the Nintendo Entertainment system but much bigger and bulkier. Apparently that had a dispute with the FCC over RF signals and in order to ship their product they had to supply one.
Calibrator wrote:
So you become the ultimate baddie yourself?
You become a Wizard yourself, but your robes are emblazoned with the symbol of the rising sun, rather than the moon... good use of symbolism in the game.
Also note that most of those who won Dungeons of Daggorath will NOT tell you the word to use. They expect every wizard to discover it for his or her self. I'm sure some unscrupulous fellow has posted the answer online somewhere, but when I took a cursory look around, I didn't find it at all.
Although as I understand it was introduced intentionally by Steve Wozniak with the Apple II. When he fully understood NTSC timing *and* revised the circuitry after the first few production runs he was able to coax out not only orange and blue (like the CoCo) but also green and violet - in addition to white (two dots placed next to each other) and black (two 'blank' dots next to each other) generating six individual colors in a high resolution screen (280x192) and 15 in low-resolutions (40x48).
This works astonishingly well but of course TVs are less precise than color monitors which I guess where more common with the Apple II than the CoCo.
Color TV's were mostly used everywhere in those days... dedicated monitors were $300-600, which is about 3 times as much with today's inflation. Considering most of us only got the old 8-bits because mom and dad saw a great deal at Sears, we were lucky to have anything.
The TI came with an RF modulator, rather like the ones that came with the Nintendo Entertainment system but much bigger and bulkier. Apparently that had a dispute with the FCC over RF signals and in order to ship their product they had to supply one.
So you become the ultimate baddie yourself?
You become a Wizard yourself, but your robes are emblazoned with the symbol of the rising sun, rather than the moon... good use of symbolism in the game.
Also note that most of those who won Dungeons of Daggorath will NOT tell you the word to use. They expect every wizard to discover it for his or her self. I'm sure some unscrupulous fellow has posted the answer online somewhere, but when I took a cursory look around, I didn't find it at all.
Adamantyr