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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: EXTRA_HALFBRITE (was V1.3 OS?)
Message-ID: <8804010946.AA02542@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 1 Apr 88 09:46:22 GMT
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>On a related note, what most people have failed to mention, is that Extra
>Half-Brite mode is essentially worthless as it is implemented. Basically,
>the way it works is a 6 bit pixel takes the contents of the color register

	Not true.  While it does not increase the number of colors on the
machine, it *does* free up color registers that would otherwise need to be 
used to smoothly shade objects.  You can have more smoothly shaded colors
on the screen at once without resorting to HAM.

					-Matt