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- From: marvil@lysator.liu.se (Martin Vilcans)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Palette-tricks and other nifty things
- Message-ID: <C1Gvrt.AKJ@lysator.liu.se>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 15:16:39 GMT
- References: <1993Jan5.192159.15650@tdb.uu.se>
- Sender: news@lysator.liu.se
- Organization: Lysator ACS at Linkoping University
- Lines: 35
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- m92mmy@tdb.uu.se (Mattias Myrberg) writes:
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- >There's one thing I've always wanted to know:
-
- >I know the Digiview thing (never seen it myself)
- >uses a trick to show more colours than there are c-registers
- >available at the same screen..and so on.
-
- >Then there's the good old plasma-trick, (copper-initiated
- >blits to the colour-registers, right ?).
-
- Wrong. You can't blit to the colour registers. They are simply
- changed by the copper.
-
- >But this is in lores (& 4 bitplane screen), while
- >the Digiview-trick manages hires too.But in hires
- >you just have 4 bitplane, and it's twice as many
- >pixels/row -do DV really manage a colour-change every pixel ?
-
- No, it doesn't. It figures out which are the 16 optimal colours for
- each scan line, and changes all the colour registers in the horizontal
- blanking. At least something like that. When displaying a four plane
- hires screen, the copper doesn't get any memory cycles while the
- pictures is beeing drawn.
-
- >I don't know much about AGA (palette-switching and stuff),
- >will it be possible to show off a 24-bit picture using
- >these kind of techniques ? (yes I'm ignorant today :)
-
- In AGA, there is no problem to show a 24 bit picture. Just use HAM8.
- It's not perfect, but I don't think you can see any difference.
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- Martin Vilcans marvil@lysator.liu.se
-