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Originally Posted by PeterK
RTG screens have lots of colors (up to 16 million) but no screen on the Amiga can have more than 256 pens. The advantage of RTG screens is that some image viewers, picture datatypes and applications can use these colors directly by accessing the gfx card hardware through cybergraphics.library. So they won't need to allocate any pens (ie. for the background picture). In that way more free pens are remaining for other applications which have no direct support for RTG like DOpus 4. The pens are always mapping to any of the screens colors, but the palette is limited to 256 colors.
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Now I'm confused. I don't understand the limitation of max 256 pens on Amiga screen when using RTG. Where does the limit come from? How do I notice it in practise? FullPalette will stay by 256 pens, right? I thought other color pic stuff is done by a color wheel or similar where you can choose all 16 or 24 bit colors. Need some clarification.