I suspect that many Atarians, especially older ones, have heard or read about the expansion of the AtariST computer's color display capability to 32k colors developed and described by Barry Orlando in the 32kcolors.zip file available on the Internet. Unfortunately - the file did not contain the schematic, but Barry wrote that for anyone who sends him a letter with feedback - he will send a copy of the schematic. Personally, I never lived to see a reply and I tried to contact him from 25 years ago.... Literally three days ago, our buddy Atarian - nicknamed ATREUS - from the Polish Atari Area, while browsing through old issues of Atari Interface magazine on the Atarimania site, made a remarkable discovery. Literally like Indiana Jones
. It turned out that in the October 1989 issue is published the text of the 32kcolor file, along with a complete diagram of this extension and a listing of a test program of its use. I am personally still in shock - how was it possible that for decades no one came across this document.... Eternal respect to Atreus for his curiosity and willingness to learn about the history related to various aspects of Atari computers. Hat off.
Link to archive on Atarimania - https://www.atarimania.com/atari-magazi ... e_108.html - October 1989 page 24.
Regards
tOri
