Unlikely. It is spelled “Colour” on the box, implying this would be for the UK market.

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Start with googling “pong chip”. There is a Wikipedia article about it, and then look for the chips “name” AY-3-8500, under which you will find lots of information about this chip.

I fondly remember the time on the net before that.

You’re welcome!

It basically tells you that you can basically tone the “colourness” (i.e. the brightness of the colours) up and down, which was a normal control (like brightness and contrast) back then. This is not about being able to make a red playing field green by some setting on the TV. You just had some potentiometers to play with the pre-amplification of the luminance and colour signals.

What could be in the instructions would an explanation of the games telling you that e.g. the playing field is green and the ball is red or somesuch, then they actually did a (rare) “colour implementation” of the circuit.

If you are interested, there is a number of interesting documentations on this pong chip on the net.

I wonder about the “Colour”. Did they actually use the different video outputs of the AY-3-8500 chip for controlling different colour signals instead just joining them as a luminance signal?

For those too young to know: The AY-3-8500 (or AY-3-8500-1 fo NTSC) chip is at the heart of almost all of those pong-type consoles. It has a number of different (but synchronized) video outputs for left player, right player, ball, numbers, and playing field, and most consoles just or’ed them together into luminance (Y) to make a simple B&W image. You could route some signals to the R-Y and/or the B-Y signal to give them some basic color, e.g. if you sent the “ball” signal both to the luminance and the red (R-Y) channel, you would get a red ball. All this needs are a handful of simple logic gates.

Just a friendly gesture among right-wing autocrats.

He seems to be “woke” enough that the MAGAs are crying already about that evil, communist Pope…

Which is, for a Pope, progressive enough for me. Someone who dressed down JD can’t be a completely wrong choice.

Of course Laura Loonie is against anything that is good in the world.

Found the American.

In a fantasy world I designed, a butterfly is one of the worst killers. Its touch is toxic, landing on any exposed skin is deadly, but in a horrible way. The victim is just paralyzed, not killed, and the butterfly returns to the victim to lay its eggs, and the larvae eat their way into the still living body…

Valeskog is quoted as saying, “If the U.S. terminates its relationship with the city planning office, the embassy will have difficulty obtaining a building permit if they want to rebuild, for example. That’s their headache, not ours.”

Wonderful! Valeskog, have a beer on me!

The good thing is that most of those “arcane magic things” in the terminal can simply be copied and pasted into said terminal. Whereas finding an obscure option on a windows program setting three requestors and five buttons deep is a nightmare, especially if your UI is not set to English.

For them, adding the AI is probably cheaper then fixing the UI.

Just heard it on the radio that student exchanges with the US are failing; First, because parents here are afraid what happens to non-citizens in the US, and second, because US parents are wary to have foreigners in their home (no because they are afraid of foreigners or kids, but of what the US “ICE” GeStaPo might do).

And his MAGAs would happily buy his Rats-on-a-Stick with ketchup.

Prayers like “May God punish you for your stupidity.”

I would not take such words as “jokes” anymore. I take them as an open and dire warning not to travel to the US until the government has been taken care of.

Yes, yes, accurately observed.