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  1. Serguei2
    I spent all the day if I can use all screen modes on Colecovision

    Modes 1 and 2 are easy.


    But I can't get screen o and 3.


    Mode 0:

    Reg/Bit 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
    0 - - - - - - M2 EXTVID
    1 4/16K BL IE M1 M3 - SI MAG


    0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0

    vdp_out(0,0);
    vdp_out(0,0xA0);

    I disabled BL because screen 0 has no sprites anyway.
    This code doesn't work


    Mode 3


    Reg/Bit 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
    0 - - - - - - M2 EXTVID
    1 4/16K BL IE M1 M3 - SI MAG

    0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    1 1 1 0 1 0 0 0


    vdp_out(0,0);
    vdp_out(0,0xE8);


    This code doesn't work either


    I expect the letters in mode 0 would be smaller

    And mode 3, sprites would be look with big pixels.


    I will stick with mode 2 since, the characters are big enough and the sprites are just fine.
  4. Serguei2
    It was the time when you buy a game, you have a physical game and the manual.

    Back to home, you start playing the new game. The manual might help you need it.


    What do you have now?

    The games are available only on the internet. You have to download them. Create an account on the game websites. Because you can't play if you don't have an account, even if you play solo.

    The manual???????????????????????????????????????????

    No. There's no manual included with the games. You have to go to the websites where you have to navigate through the pages to know how the game works. There's no one manual file to download.

    The games have not a tutorial either. Nothing. You have to play by guessing through the options.

    Unless you go to the websites and spend time to go through the pages.




    Source: Rise Of Tomb Raid Manual?

    It's how the game industry works today.

    Minecraft is an example. You have to create an account to play and go through the pages of instructions
    or you will give up in no time.


    Minecraft the game:
    https://minecraft.net/en/

    Minecraft how to play
    http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Tutorials#Newcomers
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    Pluto: Stay tuned

    By Serguei2,

    "Why hasn’t this website included any new images from New Horizons since July? As planned, New Horizons itself is on a bit of a post-flyby break, currently sending back lower data-rate information collected by the energetic particle, solar wind and space dust instruments. It will resume sending flyby images and other data in early September.
    The team will dive back into data analysis and the pace of news and image releases will pick up with the team's activity. New Horizons – which is healthy and operating normally – will continue to send data back to Earth through fall 2016.
    Stay tuned!"

    http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/index.php

    I can see, New Horizons flies away from Pluto.

    I hope they will release photos of Pluto's moons.
  15. Serguei2
    Yeah. New Horizons finally reaches Pluto at last.

    http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20150714-2

    Frozen plains on Pluto
    http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20150717

    Mountain range on Pluto
    http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20150721-2


    Why I am late to announce great moments like this, is behond me.

    New Horizons finally reached Pluto and I didn't blog it. It's a piece of history.
  16. Serguei2

    Unity

    By Serguei2,

    I noted some websites now support Unity to play games unstead Flash.

    So I decided to try Unity too.


    If the installer is about 700 kb, the whole installation takes forever to load. I suspect the data is about one gig or even more.

    I first thought Unity is a plug-in for browsers but it's something else.

    After the whole installation is complete, Unity starts and I get this:




    WHAT IS THAT??!!! Do I need to open an account to play Unity games?

    It's more like open a Flash account to play Flash games. It's stupid.


  17. Serguei2
    I noted in mid 1980s the disk drive becomes popular to North-America even if it costs more than the computer itself



    If you think the disk drive at $249 is expensive, take a look when the Commodore 64 is introduced in 1982.

    http://www.pcmuseum.ca/details.asp?id=15

    Commodore 64 is at $599.00 and the disk drive at $399.95

    The computer is more expensive than the disk drive.

    At $249, I would buy a disk drive.

    I wonder how much a disk drive is in Europe since people keep buying cassette games.
  18. Serguei2
    UHD is the next resolution of the television.

    I saw few UHD television sets at the store.

    I first thought the UHD would be the same resolution like the wides creen on movie theater but then, I found on the wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-high-definition_television, UHD is still 16:9 like HD but with higher resolution.

    What a shame. I would like to see movies on the television without black borders.


    This UHD televiison is curved. I don't know if it is better than a non-curved television set.
  22. Serguei2
    The NASA finaly released a colour picture of Pluto and Charon.
     
    http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20150414
     
     
    Pluto is maybe smaller than Earth but it's atmosphere is bigger.
     

     
     
    http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/Science-Shorts.php?page=ScienceShorts_02_24_2015
  24. Serguei2

    Ceres and Pluto

    By Serguei2,

    I can't wait to see what Ceres and Pluto look like.
     
    Ceres:
    http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/feature_stories/Dawn_getting_closer_views.asp
     
     
    Pluto:
    http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/index.php
     
    Pluto would be a gas planet with rings since it has more two moons but I might be wrong. Just guessing.
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