| From: | Staf Verhaegen |
| Date: | 13 Oct 2000 at 10:51:59 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Hardware |
Jim Peters wrote:
>
> So, the AGA amiga can output 24-bit colour, but only through a limited
> palette, which puts it way behind modern PC cards which output true
> 24-bit colour for each pixel. You can have 16 million different
> colours on the screen if you want.
Just a minor correction. You can't have 16 million colors on screen because
you don't have so many pixels on screen :)
And the amiga could display more than 256 colors on screen through HAM or
copper tricks. Which was a good solution at that time (given RAM prices and
limited bandwidth) but is not needed anymore now.
Staf.
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