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From: pochron@cat44.cs.wisc.edu (David Pochron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Non-Ham megacolour
Message-ID: <1990Nov2.222911.7979@daffy.cs.wisc.edu>
Date: 2 Nov 90 22:29:11 GMT
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In article <5287@crash.cts.com> jcs@crash.cts.com (John Schultz) writes:
>low-res, 8 pixels high-res). Thus, if you went nuts, you could load
>a new palette each scanline of a 320x200x5 screen for a possible 6,400

Just a quick correction here: The most colors the Copper can load per
scanline is 16 - it takes too long to to load 32 colors, and the next scan
line would be displayed by the time it finished.  This is why there are at
least two scan lines between screens. (When one is pulled down partially over
another.)

The really funky thing do to is to write a Copper list that changes screen
resolutions mid-screen - HORIZONTALLY!  It's easy to do and really impresses
your friends when they see a Hi-res "window" in the middle of a lo-res display.
    I am really impressed by the accuracy of the Copper's "WAIT x,y" command.

>  John


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