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gimbal · 09 November 2007, 14:24

When I was playing with my Amiga I was only 7-14 years old, so I didn't know anything about programming or the technical details of an Amiga at that time (I knew the difference between fast and chip ram, that was about it). While reading through all the threads in this forum I often come across the mentioning of the "copper trick" to get more than 16 colors on the screen.

Can someone explain to me how this works? I have the idea that the copper is a piece of hardware, is it like programming it manually to make it do things it wasn't designed to do or something?

09 November 2007, 14:24	#1
gimbal cheeky scoundrel Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Spijkenisse/Netherlands Age: 42 Posts: 6,918	technical question about amigas When I was playing with my Amiga I was only 7-14 years old, so I didn't know anything about programming or the technical details of an Amiga at that time (I knew the difference between fast and chip ram, that was about it). While reading through all the threads in this forum I often come across the mentioning of the "copper trick" to get more than 16 colors on the screen. Can someone explain to me how this works? I have the idea that the copper is a piece of hardware, is it like programming it manually to make it do things it wasn't designed to do or something?