CompuServe Messages

No, in the Amiga you could use any color next to any other color, simply given that you were limited to four colors total. As for the orthoganality of the resulting pixel/bit orientation, you would need to do some custom rendering routines… in this machine, with the blitters barrel shift capability, things could work quite nicely. You could even use the current routines to manipulate your window borders and so on as long as you were willing to use two colors… otherwise, _everything_ would need a rewrite. This kind of thing would, in my mind, occasion a rewrite of the text render functions and the line/circle render functions… with those done, you could use the "new" mode and get some very high definition use out of it. And for not much effort… I would think that the use of such a display could be made transparent to the software trying to use it via the Amiga's replaceable vectors for exec/kernal functions… OpenLibrary(FunkyMode); OpenScreen(FunkyNewScreen); life as usual, except x=0-1279, y=0-399, bp=0-1 for windows and 0-3 for graphics primitives. Of course, if you want to render right into the bitplanes, you could, but then you _do_ have to pay attention to the bits/bitplane organization. In any case, if we do it, or if someone else does and provides us with one, we'll do the primitives. –Ben–