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Re: RGB Card Question



bieling@terra.es wrote:
mdj wrote:

Jorge ChB wrote:


You can tell if a line has to be interpreted as color/B&W on a line by
line basis by watching for the presence of the color burst at the
beginning of *each* line...

??

The colour burst is omnipresent in graphics modes. Even mixed mode with
4 lines of text you get the fringy colour bust issues.


I thought the burst was shutdown while showing text,
but it looks like it's shutdown while in TEXT mode, which is not the
same thing... :-(

That is required for a stable color picture.  The color NTSC spec
requires that burst be continuously present in a color video signal.
Sub-frame switching of the burst is not allowed and may have
unpredictable results.

-michael

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