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From: bruceb@amiga.UUCP (Bruce Barrett)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Cosmetic changes to Workbench
Message-ID: <1126@amiga.amiga.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 7-May-86 21:06:41 EDT
Article-I.D.: amiga.1126
Posted: Wed May  7 21:06:41 1986
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Reply-To: bruceb@hunter.UUCP (Bruce Barrett)
Organization: Commodore-Amiga Inc., 983 University Ave #D, Los Gatos CA 95030
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Keywords: Amiga, Workbench, colors, shadows

In article <1122@amiga.amiga.UUCP> andy@skipper.UUCP (andy finkel) writes:
>In article <5406@alice.uUCp> d@alice.UucP (Daniel Rosenberg) writes:
>>Anyway, how many bit planes DO we have on the Workbench screen?
	2 bit planes, 4 colors.  Use preferences to set all of them.
>>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...	andy finkel

	True.  You will note however that if you have enough bit planes the
	sprite colors overlap the screen colors.  Look at Graphicraft for an
	example of this.  The sprite is one of the colors that you can change.
--Bruce Barrett.