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.

Like, huh? They do? (hauls out stock 50G, confirms they don't, convinced someone's been smoking the 8" floppies again).

(06-04-2018 10:03 PM)Claudio L. Wrote:  Sorry, when I said "it's the same as the 50g", I meant a 50g with newRPL ROM. The OP was talking about a 39gs and comparing it to a 50g. I automatically assumed he meant a 50g running the same newRPL firmware (now reading again, he didn't specify if the 50g was stock or newRPL).
In my response I used 50g (ambiguously, I realize now) to refer to the hardware, but I always assumed we were comparing newRPL on a 50g with newRPL on a 39gs.

Stock firmware is not grayscale but plain B&W, so it could've never done that.

I must admit I misread the context too, I didn't even think of the "50G running newRPL" vs "50G running stock".

(06-04-2018 10:11 PM)rprosperi Wrote:  Ahh, ok, got it; makes sense now. Should have thought of that and checked, but as usual, when someone posts comments which implies something that I've totally missed for many years, I just have to break out the machine to check it.

He had me checking my own 50G as well. I wonder how many other forum members guessed the context correctly? I know I didn't. I don't have a second 50G that I can newRPLise, nor does it have a complete set of 50G-stock features. Yet. I understand things like this take time though.

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