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- From: Mike@Redrobe.demon.co.uk (Mike Redrobe)
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- Subject: Re: Dynamic Productivity?
- Date: 14 Apr 96 12:05:27 +0000
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- Hi, Joey McDonald , on 11-Apr-96 06:09:08 you scribbled....
- >Hmmm. Another idea:
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- >I was just wondering...
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- >Is it possible to create a "dynamic-hires" or "palette-change" type display
- >with an ECS "productivity" screen? At the moment the best that mode can give
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- >4 out of 64 colors. I wonder how many you could get on-screen if you
- >implemented such techniques? Would it be a max of 64 becuase of the
- >palleterestriction, or would there be some way to access multiple 64 color
- >palletes per scanline.. or per sections of the screen. If there are still
- >some programmers tinkering with ECS.. It would be nice to see how far you
- >could push the old ECS modes :)
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- It would be a different palette of 4 for each slice...
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- Is there *any* source for sliced modes out there?
- I suppose its just a copper list...
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- I remember hires/lace/16 colour 5/sliced was pretty good on my old A500...
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- >I have no idea how to program any of this.. but just thought I'd pass along
- >another one of my crazy ideas :)
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- Its only useable for programs that recognize it: i.e. picture viewers
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- >Joey McDonald
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- Mike
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