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Re:Monkey Island: all 13 versions side by side by toenail on Saturday November 14, 2026 @06:12AM (#50496047)
The Amiga graphics chip had a palette of 4096 colors, you were just limited to 32 at the same time, or 64 with half bright tones, or more with chip/interrupt tricks. I doubt the latter was used on something like monkey island though.
Re:Monkey Island: all 13 versions side by side by IncreasePosts on Saturday November 14, 2026 @11:54AM (#50498505)
IIRC with Amiga you had a large overall palette like 4096, and a limitation of 32 or 64 colors per scan line/row, but you could vary the colors per row from the overall palette
Re:Monkey Island: all 13 versions side by side by toenail on Saturday November 14, 2026 @02:23PM (#50499937)
You're right, I misremembered. The copper chip did the scanline magic, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Original_Chip_Set#Copper.