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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Hi-res graphics ??
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Date: 26 Dec 89 11:16:25 GMT
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In <989@crash.cts.com>, bobl@pro-graphics.cts.com (Bob Lindabury) writes:
>Hmm..that's very strange.  Seems to me that you can't get 16 colors in
>high-resolution severe overscan even if you had 8 meg of fast ram.  It's the
>chip ram that limits your color palette I believe (I may be wrong).  As soon
>as I installed my fatter Agnus chip, I could then get the full 16 colors in
>high-res severe overscan.  I couldn't previously even though I had a 3 meg
>machine.

The Amiga has always been capable of 16 colours in 640*400, including the
oerscanned varieties. I run 704*470, and had no trouble getting 16 colours
displayed before upgrading to the obese one.  When you speak of not being able
to get 16 colours, you are probably speaking of a particular program, and if
so, you may well have been suffering a memory crunch due to things being run at
the same time.  Remember, everything running in the background will eat some
memory, including things like disk drivers for both floppy and hard drives.
Additionally, you may have had sufficient memory but it may have been
fragmented because of the order in which some things were run while you booted.

-larry

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