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- From: kortink@cs.utwente.nl (John Kortink)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Translator and palette-less sprites
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.123130.3753@cs.utwente.nl>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 12:31:30 GMT
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- Organization: University of Twente, Dept. of Computer Science
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- tb@liszt.thorn-emi-crl.co.uk (Tim Browse) writes :
-
- >[...]
- >While I'm on the subject (ok, not really), why is Translator so
- >useless at displaying 16 colour sprites, especially if they have no
- >palette? They usually look like a technicolour yawn (when I've seen
- >friends display them, of course...)
-
- Because it does the correct thing with palette-less sprites, and assumes
- the default (mode 'x') palette, which is the palette used on a MODE x
- command. It is not correct (though as an option possibly useful) to
- assume the desktop palette. It is even more incorrect to at all save
- sprites without palette, unless they're only used in the desktop environment.
-
- Does anybody read documentation these days ? I dedicate quite a bit of
- thought to precisely explaining what is happening with pixels and their
- colours, and a lot of people don't even seem to read it.
-
- Even unregistered people like you.
-
-
- John Kortink
-
- Still student of Informatics at the University of Twente, The Netherlands
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