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From: dog_cow@macgui.com (D Finnigan)
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Subject: Re: RAINBOW: a "floating bus" example
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 15:48:15 +0000 (UTC)
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Marc S. Ressl wrote:
> On 7 feb, 14:11, dog_...@macgui.com (D Finnigan) wrote:
>> Marc S. Ressl wrote:
>>
>> >http://openemulator.googlecode.com/files/rainbow.png
>>
>> > There is still a problem with two bars that flicker at the beginning
>> > (I posted the worst case)... does that happen on an Apple II as well?
>>
>> That is almost correct, but not quite.
>>
>> Every bar of the rainbow should be of uniform length. There should not be
>> any flickering at all.
>>
>> --
>> ]DF$
>> Mac GUI Vault - A source for retro Apple II and
>> Macintosh computing.http://macgui.com/vault/
> 
> Hello D Finnigan:
> 
> thanks a lot for your help! By "uniform length", do you mean that the
> LORES lines do not have the same length as the HIRES lines, or
> something else? 

In the screenshot that you posted, not all of the lines of the rainbow were
the same length.

On a real Apple II Plus, all lines should be the same length.

> Would it be a lot of trouble to post a picture of the
> output on a real Apple II?
> 

I will take a picture and have it online tomorrow.

-- 
]DF$
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Macintosh computing.
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