Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!sei.cmu.edu!fs7.ece.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!ia0i+ From: ia0i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Indu Tara Agarwal) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics Subject: Re: Dynamic Hi-Res question Message-ID: Date: 24 Apr 91 01:51:17 GMT Organization: Class of '91, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 36 Thanks for answering my question! I was _REALLY_ confused about what I was reading in various ads and articles. They repeatedly stressed the point that you could get "...4096 colors _fringe-free_..." and I went crazy trying to put together a copper list hack which could get more than 16 colors on one scan line in this mode and have no color-bleed! Actually though, this attempt started me thinking about other ways to "beat" the system and get more colors fringe-free. Would it be possible to hack a program together that would open multiple Dynamic-Hires screens (assuming you had enough chip-ram), and then do some sort of tricky "page-flipping" to get the appearance of more than 16 colors per scanline with the multiple screens?? I realize that you would get a flashing image that would make interlace flicker seem non-existent by comparison, but assuming that you had a __>>REALLLLLYY<<__ high persistence monitor to smooth out the strobe effect, could it be done? If the above seems inane or assinine, I'm sorry, but I really am curious. And yes, I know that if you had a >>REALLY<< high persistence monitor you could do this with normal hires screens as well.... :^) I guess it boils down to this: What is the fastest rate you could "page-flip" a couple of Dynamic-Hires Screens in this fashion to get a "..tolerable.." amount of screen flashing and still seem like you had more than 16 colors per scan-line? I know that some games use a double-buffered "page-flip" kind of thing to get rid of jerkiness during play, but has anyone tried this sort of scheme with other programs to "increase" the number of colors displayed on a screen? (Paint programs are the first usage I see, but assuming it could be done, it could be applied to data-plotting utilities and such where you might need more than 32 colors in order to differentiate between various plots, etc...) Any replies, negative or otherwise, are WELCOME! ===================================================================== "I'm proceeding from the assumption that there's no such thing as a dumb question!"