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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Bitplanes from Hell (was: Re: Wishlist for A3000)
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Date: Tue, 24-Nov-87 21:18:22 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 24 21:18:22 1987
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In article <1112@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>You can currently get 32 shades of grey by using extra-halfbrite. 

Using what palette? I can get 8 new shades in the lower ( <8 ) intensities :

15/2 = 7.5	11/2 = 5.5	7/2  = 3.5	3/2  = 1.5
14/2 = 7	10/2 = 5	6/2  = 3	2/2  = 1
13/2 = 6.5	9/2  = 4.5	5/2  = 2.5	1/2  = .5
12/2 = 6	8/2  = 4	4/2  = 2	0/2  = 0

This makes it less than useful in this case, but you can use it to get
more shades out of few colors (like 8 shades with 4 color registers
14,12,10,8 and 7,6,5,4) 

Has anyone besides Blair Sullivan come up with a use for EHB ? I use
if for shadows in a game I am sort of half working on but that seems
to be about the best use for it.

--Chuck McManis
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