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From: wheels@mks.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Spectrum 512
Message-ID: <315@mks.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Nov-87 09:22:00 EST
Article-I.D.: mks.315
Posted: Thu Nov  5 09:22:00 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Nov-87 15:52:09 EST
References: <499@aucs.UUCP> <2794@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont.
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Summary: a brief description for those who missed it

In article <2794@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>, engst@batcomputer.UUCP writes:
> What exactly is the Spectrum 512?  I haven't heard of it (have I been
> sleeping at the 'n' key again?).   Thanks . . .
>                                               Adam Engst

You don't know what you've been missing! It's (yet another) paint
program with a difference: by using a background interrupt routine to
reload the colour pallette once in a while, it will display 512
different colours on the screen at once (in low res).  Now, there are
limitations.  It actually reloads the pallette 3 times per scan line, I
think, giving 48 colours per line, with any 16 in each third of the
line. 

There was a slide show program using this technique on most BBS's and
information services a while back. I've seen, but not used, the actual
paint program.
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