CompuServe Messages

"On the plus side, current Amigas ship with 18 bit color, standard. "More than 16. Without adding anything. Now don't play games. While there's a big palette of colors, Amigas are limited to 256 colors on screen, or HAM8 which is brutal from a computation standpoint. Fine for playback of already produced anims, of course. As you well know, a flat 24 bit display is easier to manipulate than HAM8. Things would be much better if Commodore had updated their graphics subsystem significantly so the programmer wouldn't have to know quite so much about the hardware.