Loss of colours

2009-02-19 Thread Thomas Harte
My next Sam physical hardware question — is there any reason why my Sam might find itself merging similar colours? Check out: http://members.allegro.cc/ThomasHarte/temp/Image(072).jpg That's how the first screen of Prince of Persia looks from both the SamCo Birthday disk and Blitz 8

Re: Loss of colours

2009-02-19 Thread LCD
Thomas Harte schrieb: My next Sam physical hardware question — is there any reason why my Sam might find itself merging similar colours? Check out: http://members.allegro.cc/ThomasHarte/temp/Image(072).jpg That's how the first screen of Prince of Persia looks from both the SamCo Birthday

Re: Loss of colours

2009-02-19 Thread Thomas Harte
It seems likely to be the bright signal. Sam the Juggler runs with three shades of blue in the sky where there should be six, and the red square behind Sam's right arm is a solid red whereas in Sim Coupe it contains two separate red colours. Furthermore, the top of Sam's left leg blends in

Re: Loss of colours

2009-02-19 Thread LCD
Afaik no, unless there is a possibility to replace faulty ASICs with a chip like Altera, programed to mimic the ASIC. I had unfortunally the same problem, but I have a working SAM for spare parts. After replacing the ASIC the palette went to normal. Maybe if you obtain a faulty SAM with