newRPL - build 1255 released! [updated to 1299]

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(06-04-2018 03:36 PM)Claudio L. Wrote:  It's not unusual, it's by design :-), it's exactly the same as the 50g, perhaps your contrast settings are different and you don't see it? When you press a shift, the annunciators go dark until you release, then they "latch" in lighter gray.
Basically, light gray = shift+key, and black = shift-hold+key, they are two different shift planes with different functions in many keys, hence the visual hint in the annunciators.

Are you sure about that Claudio? I've never noticed this, and I just tried with 2 different 50gs at many different contrast settings, and I see no difference in how 'dark' the shift annunciator is when I release the shift-key. I get what you're saying, and it makes sense to indicate the different planes, but it just doesn't seem to be the case.

Could you be thinking of a different machine, or possibly this was true in an early ROM release? It's a nice touch in newRPL, but I don't think it's an original 50g feature.