Re: Why can't certain colors go to some pixels?

[ralphp@prysm.net (Ralph Wade Phillips)]

Hi, Ron!

In article <1996Apr28.145129.79194@cc.usu.edu>, ronb@cc.usu.edu (DR TE$TH
& THE ELECTRIC MAYHEM) wrote:

> It has been about 6 years since I even thought about apples, but while working
> on my ray tracer, I realized that when I was a kid, I had all of the
facilities
> to do something similar on my ][E.  The thought occurred to me however, that
> the ][e did not allow you to write certain colors to certain pixel positions. 
> Does anyone out there have a technical explanation for why this was the case?
> 
>         rOn
> 

        Yes.  The colors were produced by shifting the on/off dots
relative to the NTSC color burst signal, so certain bit patterns would NOT
work.

        RwP