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jotd · 17 May 2021, 21:15

I don't know for Supercars the first opus (tracks look like 16 color to me) but SC2 is definitely EHB so 64 colors and top quality for an ECS game.

But I was really surprised that 64 EHB still look dull because you can't really choose out of 64 colors. You have to pick 32 really different colors and use the other half the best you can (and not waste a dimmer color on the real palette).

Why did commodore implement this EHB crap where one extra normal bitplane would have been better (you can emulate EHB on AGA 6 bitplane with EHB off by duplicating the 32 color palette and dividing each RGB component by 2 for the copy) and same amount of memory & blitter bandwith used... Cheap & stupid.

17 May 2021, 21:15	#39
jotd This cat is no more Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: FRANCE Age: 52 Posts: 8,197	I don't know for Supercars the first opus (tracks look like 16 color to me) but SC2 is definitely EHB so 64 colors and top quality for an ECS game. But I was really surprised that 64 EHB still look dull because you can't really choose out of 64 colors. You have to pick 32 really different colors and use the other half the best you can (and not waste a dimmer color on the real palette). Why did commodore implement this EHB crap where one extra normal bitplane would have been better (you can emulate EHB on AGA 6 bitplane with EHB off by duplicating the 32 color palette and dividing each RGB component by 2 for the copy) and same amount of memory & blitter bandwith used... Cheap & stupid.