Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news.szaf.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Steffen Huber Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.programmer Subject: Re: The truth about 256 colour screen modes on the Archimedes Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:25:31 +0200 Organization: private Lines: 13 Message-ID: <9bkcebFadnU1@mid.individual.net> References: <42680a53-dfa4-48b0-9784-e4bfceea506f@d25g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: steffen@huber-net.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 2DfTxUgiIgUVnuVaGt0QfA0iZNGEM9IGUMkfgZdgcbZvBi7t0= Cancel-Lock: sha1:GkddaCk+DmuYDMpq+ZCfh8DvJcU= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110812 Thunderbird/6.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.sys.acorn.programmer:662 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 -- Steffen Huber - http://www.huber-net.de/ hubersn Software - http://www.hubersn-software.com/