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- From: jsaklad@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu (Jim Saklad)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Hombre history - RISC selection
- Date: 20 Jan 1996 01:09:40 GMT
- Organization: HCF - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- On 09-Jan-96 04:05:30, Lasse Olsen commented:
- > John Hendrikx (john.hendrikx@grafix.xs4all.nl) wrote:
- >: In a message of 03 Jan 96 Lasse Olsen wrote to All:
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- >: LO> Check your facts. Ham8 is for all practical reasons limited
- >: LO> to 262,000 colors on screen at once with, one-pixel changes.
- >: LO> Cheers...
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- >: Actually it is limited to 16 million colors, but only if you set the
- >: base-palette right. Of course for all practical uses you'll rarely have m
- >: than say 10000 colors on screen, so this is not very interesting anyway.
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- > This is exactly what I meant with "practical reasons".
- > Though, having 10.000+ colors onscreen is easy.
- > Cheers...
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- 262,000 is more colors than there are pixels on a 640X400 screen.
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