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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
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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.
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