If you run the above cart, the moment you hit (O) you will see a pattern quickly appear before changing the palette. This apparently occurs when you make use of the extended color set.
A simple solution for now would be to make use of the extended set before your program actually starts up. Then while it still does it, you can curb it at the beginning.
This does not appear at all in the Pico-8 system though.
I am understanding now this is deliberate and intentional. Perhaps a type of way to punish programmers who want to make use of the extended palette. It currently only appears on the BBS but I suspect with the new Pico-8 release for purchasers, the "glitch" effect will be added there as well.
Understand it ONLY appears if you use the extended color set which most basic coders won't even know how to take advantage of yet.
Closing out this BUG ticket.
I believe this is intended in order to clearly show (and partly penalise :) ) the use of the extended colours. Zep tweeted about it some time ago.
The reason it only shows in the BBS is that the effect hasn’t made it to any officially released downloads yet.
Hi, @johanp. Thanks for checking this out.
I do know the last version did not do this because people were already working with extended color carts and that pattern did not appear on the BBS then.
It only appears in THIS version of Pico-8 for the BBS.
0.1.12d
More like, what's the problem, @johanp. The garbage that appears in the BBS currently is version is 0.1.12d. It did not appear before.
@zep likely can examine the differences between the version prior and this version and remedy this so there are no extraneous displays for accessing the extended palette set.
Just like the focus of this article it's not a question but a statement. And the statement is that an error exists in the current version of Pico-8 which did not exist in the version prior.
Maybe I’m not reading your post correctly, but the hitter on the screen when first using the extended palette is intentional.
Intentional ? Oh well. It's really not necessary. Veteran coders are immediately going to recognize the new colors when they see them. That's fine though if he needs some visual reference.
As he has other messages that appear, for instance, if you POKE to active the mouse and keyboard, he could do the same:
EXTENDED COLORS IN USE
But if screen distortion is something @zep really wants instead, he's gonna get it.
If you have the tweet address, @johanp, I can certainly read about it myself and close out this ticket.
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