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From: ekrimen@csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen)
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Subject: Re: Purchase decision, to STe or not?
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Date: 26 Sep 90 07:36:26 GMT
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jcksnsr@nmt.edu (Jeffrey C. King) writes:

- In order to  use more than 16 colors without a color map and funny 
- routines (Spectrum!)  you have to have more than 3 bit planes..
- (2^3)= 16 thus only sixteen colors... but with four bit planes (2^4)
- one would have 32 colors.  One side effect would be larger files...
- As simple way to check the converted files is to check files size if
- they are about 32K then they probably only have 16 colors (more
- obtained by clever dithering).. but if they are noticably larger 
- they probably include more bit planes...  (This is a side effect of
- the .NEO format.. it is essentially pallete data followed by a
- straight screen dump....  obviously this wouldn't work to tell with 
- a compressed file (TNY or PC?).
 
The "4096-color-compatible" NEO pics I have are 32768 bytes long.  
They have supposedly 32 colors.