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From: andy@amiga.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Cosmetic changes to Workbench
Message-ID: <1122@amiga.amiga.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 7-May-86 14:10:08 EDT
Article-I.D.: amiga.1122
Posted: Wed May  7 14:10:08 1986
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Reply-To: andy@skipper.UUCP (andy finkel)
Organization: Commodore Business Machines, 1200 Wilson Drive, West Chester, PA 19380
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Keywords: Amiga, Workbench, colors, shadows

In article <5406@alice.uUCp> d@alice.UucP (Daniel Rosenberg) writes:
>Oh, Commodore - have you been listening to this discussion?
>Anyway, how many bit planes DO we have on the Workbench screen?
>If I change around my mouse pointer from Preferances, I can get
>an additional three to the four that are already there.
>

Sprites (like the pointer) can use different color registers than
the ones used for the workbench screen.  That's how you can have
more than 4 colors...but the workbench SCREEN only has enough
bitplanes allocated for 4 colors...more bitplanes mean more memory
used.

			andy finkel

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