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First of all: emulators is a bad idea for testing such things. Trust just the real (original) hardware.
Some of them still have problems with some features like horizontal interrupt.
As far I know currently the most accurate emulator is BlastEm. Also to some extent Exodus is useful.

Second: usually ...

Thanks for the interesting information!

After trying to dig a bit deeper into VDP's horizontal interruption I found an interesting thing: when you enable horizontal interruption in the reg #0 one interrupt is fired immediately after that and another interrupt happens as expected with the delay set in the reg #10. Does anyone have any ...

The time runs so fast. Just 15-17 years passed since then.

Nice!

The "pixels" of the background are 2x2?

Chilly Willy you are still with us!
And you are right as always.

Actually I did intend to display an "almost" direct color image.
And it's almost successful.
It's possible to reload 48 colors per screen line thus you have 12 dynamic + 4 static colors per palette.
But it doesn't help too much as long as you can't overlap those colors.
Each 16 colors are bounded by ...

I guess I confused something and didn't understand you right.

A VDP palette has 16 colors.
You can't use 56+8 colors.

If you make a heap of layers than you should transfer a lot of image index data for each layer.
VDP barely can transfer them for one single layer.

how to pay for this forum?

And what's the result?
To be or not to be?

Even he shows such zoomed images I can see clearly those damned columns.

The most important to know is that it's possible to sync. But it doesn't help too much.
Personally for me those wide columns destroy everything.
I could ignore 2x1 sized pixels.
But I can't ignore those wide columns. They just ...

An interesting feeling to know now how it's easy to sync VDP...
It's really strange they couldn't do that in 1993.
No magic. Just overload VDP and make a fine pause after that.

The most interesting that human perception almost doesn't notice that feature.
At least in the times when SC1 was very popular I personally had never noticed that.
I felt a bit that something was wrong and strange but that's was a very slight feeling.
The left fake-projection causes to me much more ...

StarCraft 1 uses isometric visualization and "plain" 2D physics.
For example if you command two the same units to go horizontally and vertically they will do that with the same speed.
If the physics would be really isometric vertical moves would be twice slower for example as in another less popular ...