From: Spiro Trikaliotis (ml-cbmhackers_at_trikaliotis.net)
Date: 2005-10-31 09:02:48
Hello Glenn,
* On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 07:53:37PM -0500 Glenn Holmer wrote:
> On Sunday 30 October 2005 14:26, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 01:36:08PM +0200, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote:
[...]
> > > Well... I thought I could look up the net where I found that the
> > > -01 ROM's problem is "only" a problem of the VIC-II, not of the ROM
> > > itself. Unfortunately, I could not find that article anymore.
[...]
> "The C64 seemed to have a congenital defect with the video chip. "You
> would see light blue sparkles on dark blue, especially after it heated
> up", says Bil Herd... "They rewrote the code so that the unused
> characters were changed to dark blue. It was sparkling dark blue on
> top of dark blue so you couldn't see it."
Yes, these are exactly the details I was remembering.
Regards,
Spiro.
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