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- From: 10754555@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au (DAVID RICHARDS)
- Subject: Re: High-res and the colors it uses
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- Organization: Faculty of Engineering, Monash University
- References: <1992Aug11.032009.24435@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> <10754555.7.713515196@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 07:24:56 GMT
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- >
- >>I was wondering if anyone knew at what stage of memory high-res can use 32, 64
- >>and HAM's color palette. I know at three meg of memory it can support 16
- >>colors! Anyone know?
- >
- >Actually, it's not how much memory but how much chip-mem!
- >Very few programs will give you more colours with extra memory in hi-res and
- >the ones that do are very slow. Most will only use your 1 meg of chip and
- >forget about the 2 meg fast-mem.
- >If you want more colours you'll have to start your graphics program on its
- >own in memory or at least first so it gets first chance at chip-mem. I have
- >3 meg and have had 32 colours in hi-res with a bit of simple memory
- >management. ^^^^^^^^^^
- ^^^^^^^^^^
-
- Sorry, must apologies for this terrible and highly incorrect statement I
- made earlier, I don't know what I was thinking at the time.
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