[Coco] CoCoFEST! 2009 256-color slideshow (now dithered!)

[John W. Linville]

On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 06:20:38PM -0600, Christopher Hawks wrote:
> John W. Linville said the following on 01/10/2010 05:36 PM:
>> On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 05:23:18PM -0600, Steve Ostrom wrote:
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "John W. Linville"  
>>> <linville at tuxdriver.com>
>>> To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>>> Sent: Sunday, January 10, 2010 4:28 PM
>>> Subject: [Coco] CoCoFEST! 2009 256-color slideshow (now dithered!)
>>>
>>>
>>>> So I learned how to dither images.  Now my 256-color slideshow looks
>>>> a lot better...
>>>>
>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm9yB3xVfbs
>>>>
>>>> Enjoy!
>>>>
>>>> John
>>> John, when I view this on my Vista PC with broadband connection, I 
>>> see  static pictures that last about 15 seconds each with a flashing 
>>> border.  What am I missing?  What should I be seeing?
>>
>> That's exactly it.  It is a slideshow utilizing the 256-color composite
>> artifacting mode.  There is no sound.
>
> 	The first picture looks great!! But, the flashing is way too annoying to 
> watch. Is that caused by the 256-color mode??

No, I just cycle the border colors as an activity indicator as I load
the pictures over the serial port.  Otherwise I figured people would
ask why it just sat there doing nothing... :-)

John
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