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From: hood@cbmvax.commodore.com (Scott Hood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A2410
Message-ID: <16014@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 21 Nov 90 15:14:13 GMT
References: <1990Nov20.230426.11983@cec1.wustl.edu>
Reply-To: hood@cbmvax.commodore.com (Scott Hood)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1990Nov20.230426.11983@cec1.wustl.edu> amc4919@cec2.wustl.edu (Adam M. Costello) writes:
>Could someone who knows (presumeably someone at Commodore) please let us know
>how flexible the A2410 is with regard to # of colors.  For example, on current
>Amigas, there is an "official" limit of 16 colors on a Hi-res screen, but
>various tricks can be performed to _greatly_ increase that number.  Can
>similar tricks be used on the A2410, or is 256 colors (or 259 with the
>overlays?) a hard limit?
>Thanks,
>AMC

 256 colors plus three overlay colors are the limit.  This is out of
16.8 millions colors.

Scott Hood

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