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From: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 4096 colors in HIRES
Message-ID: <409@xdos.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jul 89 17:34:45 GMT
References: <20069@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt)
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Organization: Hunter Systems, Mountain View CA (Silicon Valley)
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In article <20069@cup.portal.com> stephan@cup.portal.com (Stephen Derek Schaem) writes:
>
>          After some test I found that displaying 4096 colors in hires is
> really easy.The only thing is you can only have 16 different colors per
> scanlines (could be doubled) but one can make 6400 colors changes per screen
> without a problem.

Hey, this was very easy to read! Congratulations on a well edited
posting, Stephan! (To those who came in late, he's been flamed for
the opposite recently.)

>          My question is how could I make a CCOP chunk for the IFF/ILBM
> acceptable to everyone? Should I directly dumped the copperlist in the
> junk or give a list of positions and registers to change?

I would suggest that the most hardware-independent approach would be
to simply specify the new set of color registers. Actually encoding the
copperlist seems too hardware dependent. It is quite possible that
future Amiga's will not use the current copper.

>           We have the hardware why not use it!? I really want to see a
> 704x440 with 4096 on screen on a standard A500.I'm going to do it for myself
> but if you want to see it spread a little ideas are welcome.

Seems like a good idea. Oh, some people cringe at the thought, but it
*can* produce good effects, so why not? And the Atari ST impressed a lot
of people by adopting this approach in a popular paint program.

>          I still hope that my posting wont offend anybody.Believe me I never
> try to do so.And maybe you can see that I put some effort in the next
> message not to upset people reading com.sys.amiga.

Yes indeed. The effort definitely shows, and I, for one, appreciate it
very much.
	Doug
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