32768 color dual Shifter ST mod - schematics lost?

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Re: 32768 color dual Shifter ST mod - schematics lost?

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sporniket wrote: Thu Jul 14, 2022 1:00 pm This time I ordered resistors with color rings instead of digits printed on it, so that I don't have to take care of bending the leads so that the digits are shown. But it's still inconvenient to check...
Mate, try SMD for one revision. I doubt you’ll go back to throughhole!

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Re: 32768 color dual Shifter ST mod - schematics lost?

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Badwolf wrote: Thu Jul 14, 2022 6:38 pm Mate, try SMD for one revision. I doubt you’ll go back to throughhole!
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sporniket wrote: Thu Jul 14, 2022 6:57 pm
Badwolf wrote: Thu Jul 14, 2022 6:38 pm Mate, try SMD for one revision. I doubt you’ll go back to throughhole!
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But then you have to buy twice as many SMT parts because of all the ones you drop on the floor and never find again! :lol:
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exxos wrote: Thu Jul 14, 2022 7:07 pm
sporniket wrote: Thu Jul 14, 2022 6:57 pm
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But then you have to buy twice as many SMT parts because of all the ones you drop on the floor and never find again! :lol:
Reminds me of an 'Apple Engineer' we used to get come in our place to buy Dell laptops/tablets.

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Re: 32768 color dual Shifter ST mod - schematics lost?

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I've just been pointed to a thread on AtariAge by @exxos where a guy has just purchased an Atari STFM with the legendary JRI4096 colour board in it. :)

Whilst not the same as the Barry Orlando board, it may be worth a look:

https://forums.atariage.com/topic/34077 ... nt-5119872
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Re: 32768 color dual Shifter ST mod - schematics lost?

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Am I right in saying that the STF pallet (RGB) is #000 to #777? From what I remember #888 on the STE is halfway between #000 and #111 and #999 is half way between #111 and #222.

What happens in an STF if you set a colour register to say #CCC, will you get a grey?
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your right. On STe, to be backward compatible, the new least significant bit of color is put at position 3. Meaning if you want level 12 = $C = %1100, you have to convert it using the formula f(x)=(x >> 1)+ (x&1)<<3, ie (%110) + (0) = 6.

edit: thus, to get the STe level 1, you get (0) + (1<<3 = 8) = 8 ; level 3 -> (3 >> 1 = 1) + (1<<3 = 8) = 9 ; and so on.

On the stock STF, of course, the bit at position 3 is ignored, so each $C of #CCC will be seen as 4 and you get #444, mid grey
On a STe, writing #CCC, each C is interpreted as ((C & 7)<<1 = 4<<1=8) + ((C&8)>>3 = 8>>3 = 1) = 9, i.e you get #999, that will be slightly lighter than on the STF.
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