[Coco] CoCoMax - Now: OT Amiga / CoCo musings

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Yes, it did have a 9-bit colour palette and so they had 512 colors to
play with. If silicon had been cheaper in the day, Tandy might've
ultilised all 8-bits giving us 256 colors, but alas, they used only six
giving us 64 colors, until Sockmaster and some others gave us more
through clever programming :-)

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [Coco] CoCoMax - Now: OT Amiga / CoCo musings
> From: "L. Curtis Boyle" <curtisboyle at sasktel.net>
> Date: Sun, April 08, 2007 10:16 am
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> 
> On Sat, 07 Apr 2007 10:50:43 -0600, John Kowalski  wrote:
> > There was a paint program on the Atari ST that could update all 16  
> > palettes
> > multiple times *per* scanline.  The Atari ST hardware had the
> benefit of  
> > not
> > generating palette glitch/noise if the palettes were updated while the
> > screen was being displayed, but otherwise it too was not intended to
> do  
> > this
> > sort of stuff.  It's graphics mode being nearly identical to the
> CoCo 3s
>     If I remember, they had a 512 colour (3 bits per RGB color) vs.
> our 64  
> colour (2 bits per RGB) of a palette to draw on. Also, Dragonfire on
> the  
> Coco 1/2 did mode switching (switching between the two color sets;
> sort of  
> a very limited palette switch) several times per scanline (As you well  
> know... :-))
> 
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> L. Curtis Boyle
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