On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Paul Brooks wrote: > Does the Kaleidoscope realy give the Sam 32,768 true colours? I'm > interested in what it is and what it does - (you never seem to hear > anything about it...)
It increases the size of tha palette from 128 to 32768, but you can still only display 16 of them on the screen at once (or just a few more, with interrupt-based palette switching routines). Although, sometimes, it was a problem that (for example) there were only a few shades of red available in the palette; unless your entire scene consists of shades of a single colour, the biggest problem is limiting your graphics to 16 unique colours - and Kaleidoscope doesn't help with that. Andrew -- --- Andrew Collier ---- ---- http://www.intensity.org.uk/ --- -- r<2+ T<4* cSEL dMS hEn/CB<BL A4 S+*<++ C$++L/mP W- a-- Vh+seT+ (Cantab) 1.1.4
