Given that, at least going from my memory, there was space to spare in the original ZX Spectrum ROM, the flashing cursor in Spectrum BASIC could have quite easily been implemented with interrupts and each character square could have had complete freedom to pick any two of sixteen colours.
But what do they say about hindsight? On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Ian Collier <ian.coll...@cs.ox.ac.uk>wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 04:16:28PM -0700, Thomas Harte wrote: > > I'm unsure why they > > decided to go bright + flash in the Spectrum, to be honest. Was > > flashing a must have feature of the 1982 computer market? > > No but you forget one thing... the cursor. :-) > > imc > -- James R Curry 8...@itdoesntsuck.com
