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Re: The truth about 256 colour screen modes on the Archimedes

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From Steffen Huber <spam@huber-net.de>
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Subject Re: The truth about 256 colour screen modes on the Archimedes
Date Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:25:31 +0200
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druck wrote:
> I don't think anyone managed to do anything useful with the limited
> programmability of the palette in classic 256 colour modes.

I seem to remember an application called PaintCan by Denis Bogatz (sp?)
which provided basically all 4096 colours for painting and then
optimized the palette to give the best representation.

Steffen

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  Re: The truth about 256 colour screen modes on the Archimedes Xavier <xltardy@gmail.com> - 2011-08-23 01:09 -0700
    Re: The truth about 256 colour screen modes on the Archimedes Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2011-08-23 12:08 +0200
  Re: The truth about 256 colour screen modes on the Archimedes Theo Markettos <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2011-08-23 15:58 +0100
    Re: The truth about 256 colour screen modes on the Archimedes druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2011-08-23 23:04 +0100
      Re: The truth about 256 colour screen modes on the Archimedes Steffen Huber <spam@huber-net.de> - 2011-08-24 15:25 +0200
        Re: The truth about 256 colour screen modes on the Archimedes Theo Markettos <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2011-08-24 15:54 +0100
          Re: The truth about 256 colour screen modes on the Archimedes Theo Markettos <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2011-08-30 17:28 +0100
            Re: The truth about 256 colour screen modes on the Archimedes druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2011-08-31 18:24 +0100
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  Re: The truth about 256 colour screen modes on the Archimedes chrisbazley@bigfoot.com - 2011-09-03 02:03 -0700
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