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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: eXtra-Half-Brite: The Full Story Please!
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Date: Sat, 5-Dec-87 08:20:40 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec  5 08:20:40 1987
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Summary: 64-color denise?

In article <2886@cbmvax.UUCP>, grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes:
> It is kind of a kludge which takes advantage
> of the fact that the logic for handling six bitplanes was already present
> to make HAM work, however changing the color lookup table from 32 to 64
> entries would have caused an undesirable increase in the size of the
> Denise chip.  Chip cost bears an exponential relationship to area, so
> you try to avoid major size increases unless better technology is available
> to compensate.

When you do go to a 64-color denise, will it work with the 1000s? Since the 500
and 2000 denise is the same, I'd presume that a 64-color version that would
work in them would work in the 1000. Just like some feedback on this...

(you *ARE* going to have a 64-color denise, aren't you?)

(please?)
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