Not really. The repro speaker panel has removable red film. If there's interest I might do a new translite and panel too (original design) with a clear DMD window to support the colorization. See how it goes.

Someone did that already, sculpting isn't really my forte.

Randy just loves torturing you all with his puzzles.

Quite the opposite actually, it's one downside to high rez screens.

I'm calling it right now, Metallica is going to be the best looking ColorDMD yet.

Anyone and everyone know my love for The Shadow. Most under-appreciated brilliant game ever? Possibly! But even I have to admit the dots on Metallica are superb. Might even be one of the best ever. And it's going to look so killer in color. ACDC? Pffffftttttt. Bring on Metallica!!

ColorDMD and SmartDMD aren't the same product. They have different technical specs and abilities, they're not going to look the same. So keep that in mind.

But beyond that, why would ColorDMD, who's been reliably serving the community with colorized games all this time, finally get SAM capability and then just walk away because a newcomer is going to try and do it?

I'm not smearing Mike here, or his product, to be clear. Make your own choice. Just saying it makes no sense for ColorDMD to skip a game like ACDC because of another company stepping into the arena.

All three confirmed in the works already.

I'm looking forward to more comparisons, but this is the best we have so far. I did a quick back and forth frame animation on the two to help see how they're different.

acdc-color-compare.gif

Too bad they're not both dots, be easier to see how they compare that way.

Right, if I understand it correctly ColorDMD doesn't "throw away" the shading data (it's what they use to give the darker color the scanline effect on that mode, notice it's not on all the colors) so they have 16 colors, same as SmartDMD, but then the shading data can be applied to those colors.

I don't know how that works for SAM, which has 16 brightness levels, on the old games I think they got an effective 64 colors, 16x4 brightness levels.

Randy correct me if I'm off on anything.

All I can compare is what I have access to. Give me a better frame and I'll remake the gif happily.

Be in stock in about a week.