Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: eXtra-Half-Brite: The Full Story Please! Message-ID: <1224@sugar.UUCP> Date: Sat, 5-Dec-87 08:20:40 EST Article-I.D.: sugar.1224 Posted: Sat Dec 5 08:20:40 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 11-Dec-87 05:32:36 EST References: <6924@sunybcs.UUCP> <2886@cbmvax.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX Lines: 19 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?) -- -- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter -- Disclaimer: These U aren't mere opinions... these are *values*.