Re: Deep Thoughts

[neville@fawlty.towers.oz.au (Neville Smith)]

>Question:  With the nice pallette switch techniques, would it be possible for
>one to re-draw two different pallettes.  The eye would most posibly merge
>the images into one.  Someone will have to try this...
>If you get bad hedaches or melted display hardware, tell me so that i can
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>--Ken >Wirehead< Wronkiewicz

Are you possibly talking about the following idea :
Set up two different pallettes (sp?).
Then every alternate time the electron beam redraws the screen,
flip the SCBs to the alternate pallette (or flip the pallette back and forth).

Thus say we have gray1 and gray2 in the same colour position in the pallette.
The first redraw we would see gray1, and the second time we'd see gray2
in effect producing gray1.5.

This way we'd get 8192 possible colours.

plusses :	- should be just as easy if not easier than 3200 to implement.
		- there are quite a few 32 colour gifs (made on amigas?)

minuses :	- effectively a 25Hz screen rate (or 30 for Europeans (US?)).


I think the FTA(ACS) did this on their Animaga disk.
They had a screen showing 32 shades of gray.

Neville Smith
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