On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Colin Piggot wrote:

> So whatever value of shading the kaleidoscope was set to would affect all
> the colours on screen.

Wow, that's even more stupid that I realised. I had assumed, at the very
least, they had made it work on one palette entry at a time.

How did a device like that make it into production? Did the designer - or
the people at SamCo, who marketed it and put a write-up in the NewsDisk at
the time - ever actually believe that anyone would be able to make use of
it?

Andrew

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