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ID Category [?] Severity [?] Reproducibility Date Submitted Last Update
07300 Color/Palette Minor Always Apr 24, 2019, 19:44 Jun 2, 2019, 12:23
Tester robcfg View Status Public Platform MAME (Official Binary)
Assigned To robcfg Resolution Fixed OS MacOS X
Status [?] Resolved Driver
Version 0.209 Fixed in Version 0.210 Build 64-bit
Fixed in Git Commit Github Pull Request #
Summary MESS-specific 07300: dragon32, dragon64, dragon64h, dragon200, dragon200e: PAL Dragon machines show NTSC color artifacting
Description PAL Dragons high res display mode (256x192 black & white) is rendered with NTSC artifacts, instead of b&w patterns, you get also blue and orange color.

This does not happen on real machines or other emulators, like XRoar.
Steps To Reproduce Type the following program:

10 PMODE4,1:SCREEN 1,1:PCLS1
20 FOR I=0 to 3071:POKE 3072+I,85:NEXT I
30 FOR I=3072 to 6143:POKE 3072+I,170:NEXT I
40 GOTO 40

Please note that if you don't have the dos cartridge loaded, you have to change the "POKE 3072," instances to "POKE 1536,".

Also, see attached picture.
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Affected Sets / Systems dragon32, dragon64, dragon64h, dragon200, dragon200e
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jpg file icon MameDragon32NTSCArtifacting.jpg (42,777 bytes) Apr 24, 2019, 19:44 Uploaded by robcfg
Test program on emulated dragon32 showing ntsc artifating.
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No.16388
robcfg
Tester
Apr 27, 2019, 13:34
It seems that the artifacter function in mc6847.h only does ntsc artifacting.

As there are pal and ntsc dragons, a possible solution would be to make the artifacter detect the color system in use and apply the right one. The pal color artifacting needs to be implemented.

More information on the subject can be found here: http://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5462
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No.16439
robcfg
Tester
May 6, 2019, 19:56
I've implemented the pal color blend and the changes are in this pull request https://github.com/mamedev/mame/pull/4980
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No.16502
Robbbert
Senior Tester
Jun 2, 2019, 12:23
edited on: Jun 2, 2019, 12:25
Fixed by the OP according to the SB.

robcfg: Quick question. I fixed this bug I reported (https://mametesters.org/view.php?id=7300) and the changes are on 0.210. Who can check that it's safe to close it as solved?