Re: PAL DTV progress re colour fault(s) ???

>>>>> "RR" == Riccardo Rubini <rubini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

RR> I still see no official word nor any official fix from any of the
RR> known developers of this project.

How exactly do you expect us to know what the problem is, or how to
fix it? I sent back my prototype (which was different from the
production hardware) in May or June. I don't even own a PAL DTV - they
aren't for sale here, and I haven't gotten any freebies. The resistor
screwup happened 6 months later on the other side of the planet, and
since the extended palette isn't even visible unless you hack the unit
it was impossible to discover before the fact. The test mode only
displays the standard 16 colours and to the untrained eye there's
nothing obviously wrong with it. I think it's fair to assume that the
Chinese QA dept doesn't consist of hardcore C64 enthusiasts.

RB> You guys never seem to talk abou the XGameStation. Well, it works,
RB> it's sold, it's supported and makes the C-1 look like what it is:
RB> vapourware. Promising vapourware, but still, vapourware.

That's because the XGameStation is the opposite of the C-1: well
supported software, but boring hardware. The first prototypes were
much more interesting, with a 6502-ish CPU on GBA-ish graphics
hardware with a decent basic IDE. The final product is more like an
Atari 2600 on steroids, and is (to me) completely uninteresting.

If you've read any of my posts on the C-1 in the last year or two you
know exactly how I feel about it. I've invested several months of
development into the board, and it's a damn shame that it doesn't
deliver what it promised.

RR> I wonder why they didn't remove those options, if they really
RR> fiddled so much with Jeri's schematics and were so eager to cost
RR> reduce everything. Isn't it odd?

Because she made it hard to take them out. She was well aware that
they would try to remove them, so she gave them important sounding
names, marked them as important, and made them hard to take out
without a redesign.

Riccardo, you really need to chill. Jeri refused to continue working
on the DTV when they stopped sending her paychecks. They have
produced and sold over half a million DTVs, so they don't have any
excuses for not paying their primary developer. The features that we
enjoy are there thanks to Jeri and the rest, and despite the
production company.

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