Asteroids Deluxe color mod

Interesting! If I had an AD, I'd probably never do that (for fear of screwing it up), but it would be neat to see one working, bet it'd look cool. Thanks for posting that.
 
I remember seeing this years ago. Glad it is still out there. I would LOVE to see pictures or a video of this hack working, and also to see the actual hardware hack pictures. I have a hard tome picturing in my mind what is described in the instructions.

Tom
 
It's a senseless hack, since all it's doing is 'decoding' brightness setting sent to the Z DAC into basically random colors...

The "right" way to do things would be to recode the game so that each object is drawn with a different brightness (rather than ship/ufo the same, and all shots the same), then socket the ZDAC and put out a daughterboard to latch the DAC value and use a PROM to decode the intensities to colors in a more meaningful manner.

...but seriously, who's going to waste a 6100 on AD anyway (unless someone makes an adapter board to drop A/AD into SD/Grav)
 
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