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2016-12-12 00:26
pepto
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colodore is the new pepto

Hey guys, I remeasured the video-signals of my VIC-II's and slightly updated my 15 year old attempt at calculating an rgb-clone. While at it, I also measured VIC & TED and made a little website about it, that allows you to adjust brightness, contrast and saturation as you like and then save your own custom palette to a png-file.

http://www.colodore.com


I took extra care to make sure, that the brightness, contrast and saturation sliders behave the same way as my 1084s.

While closely comparing my LCD to the 1084s, I found that making the transparency of scanlines dependent on YUV's Y (so they are less visible for brighter colors) looked a lot more like the real thing. I also noticed that the phase-shift on odd-lines happens for YUV's V only and there's even a name for it in video-lingua: hanover bars.

After implementing this, I'm happy to say that the images on my LCD and 1084s are remarkably close.


I will write a more detailed article about it in January, but seriously need a christmas-break first...

Cheers,
pepto
 
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2016-12-14 21:41
chatGPZ

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Quote:
And by the way, I think not many laptop displays, for example, can reproduce the spot brightness of a small CRT display, no matter what’s the brightness and contrast setting. Only recently dynamic range has become a thing with HDR standards for UHD TVs.

color gamut is another thing - VGA can not reproduce all colors that a PAL-CRT can (and the other way around)
2016-12-14 22:34
Oswald

Registered: Apr 2002
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I was satisfied with the 'pepto' palette, but if this would make it into vice, in a user friendly way (realtime manipuation) that would be nice.
2016-12-14 22:41
soci

Registered: Sep 2003
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Quoting pepto
Great image btw., also loved it on the bigscreen at Breakpoint... :)


This picture has several errors (on the right) compared to the compo version I know (on the left). The most noticeable is a group of purple pixels near the upper left corner.
2016-12-14 23:05
pepto
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Quote: Quoting pepto
Great image btw., also loved it on the bigscreen at Breakpoint... :)


This picture has several errors (on the right) compared to the compo version I know (on the left). The most noticeable is a group of purple pixels near the upper left corner.


Interesting, I wonder how that happened... thanks for noticing!

I just ripped a fresh copy - you might have to clear your browser-cache if you don't see it immediately.
2016-12-15 10:28
Oswald

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iirc that picture was converted to nufli, so you might have used the nufli version for the tft.
2016-12-15 17:44
Dr. TerrorZ

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In my image, the Imjärvi UFO Incident - BTW I'm honored that it's included :) - for some reason the guy on the left lacks the light brown area on the hat that's in the original, instead it is replaced with dark brown?

Interesting project! I have a 1084S, I'll have to do comparisons.
2016-12-15 18:01
pepto
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Quote: In my image, the Imjärvi UFO Incident - BTW I'm honored that it's included :) - for some reason the guy on the left lacks the light brown area on the hat that's in the original, instead it is replaced with dark brown?

Interesting project! I have a 1084S, I'll have to do comparisons.


Sorry, that's a little embarrassing... ^^ I remapped some colors from pre-made screenshots by eye-sight in order to be done faster. This will be a lesson for me to be more careful...

I just fixed it, but you may have to clear your browser-cache just in case you don't see it immediately.

I like the image a lot - the sensation of glowing light in the snowy forrest and the mystery-aspect, I even did research on the real incident because of this... :D
2016-12-15 18:42
Jammer

Registered: Nov 2002
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Quoting Groepaz
just a little bit too late for VICE3.0


That one has drawn my attention. Was that a hint of nice Christmas gift? :P
2016-12-15 19:15
chatGPZ

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who knows
2016-12-15 19:19
Oswald

Registered: Apr 2002
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only now realised there are more pics to be seen in there. played around a bit, and yeah it has a much more CRTish feeling than anything I've seen so far.
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