Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!jarthur!nntp-server.caltech.edu!toddpw From: toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Stellar 7 re-release Message-ID: <1991Jan4.205250.15269@nntp-server.caltech.edu> Date: 4 Jan 91 20:52:50 GMT References: <60237@microsoft.UUCP> Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Lines: 15 benji@euler.Berkeley.EDU (Benji Rudiak-Gould) writes: >Then why are 3200-color pictures called that? If you can only have an >interrupt every other line, say, then the most that can be managed is 1600 >colors. Wrongo!! That'd be true IF you only had one palette in the hardware to refill (like most computers -- harumph). The GS has 16 hardware palettes and you can interrupt every 16 lines if you want. Because of the time constraints, it is easier to just interrupt once per screen and have the interrupt take the entire display time to complete. That is why dreamgraphix can have an ultra slow full color edit mode. Todd Whitesel toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu