CompuServe Messages

Steve, Well, Eulogio gave you some bad information. The way HAM is encoded (I don't recall the actual bit patterns, but they're unimportant): There are two flavo(u)rs of HAM, HAM6 and HAM8, each uses two bits to encode whether to load a color from a palette of (16 or 64…the remaining bits in the code) or whether to set the red/green/blue gun to an absolute value (using the remaining bits). The original Amiga had only 4 bits per 'gun' therefore a total of 4096 colo(u)rs; these could all be displayed in HAM by directly setting the relevant color registers, even tho only one could be set per pixel.