18 June 2008, 06:00 | #101 |
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Hence I did not offer my opinion on the sound as I cannot because I have not heard the Megadrive version. Re sound, I was stating what others have said on the internets if you read my comment. |
21 June 2008, 09:40 | #102 |
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Amiga beats Megadrive in every technical way. ram, speed, grafix, sounds, musix, colors, software, massively more games, storage, connectors, keyboard, and so on.
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Hmmmm my friend, i am not sure one could really say that the Amiga beats Megadrive in EVERY technical way. OK, An expanded A1200 / 3000 or 4000, most certainly, but if we are fair here, the only thing on the market at the time the MegaDrive was released was infact the A500+ and as much as I love Amiga, I will say that even the A500+ had short comings. On a technical *Feature* level the A500+ and MD are kinda even, surprisingly when one cost £399 and the other only cost £189 on launch in 1989/90 the MD can produce more colours on screen during play than the A500+, however the MD is limited to only 2 screen modes. where the Amiga has only 4 channel 8bit (Mono Pan) Stereo, the MD has two synth Chips that can use DMA and are controlled by a Co-Processor (not the main CPU) think of the sound processing of the MD as similar to an ADLIB sound card (as that is pretty much what it is) yes the MD has only 64K of RAM, but as Akira has been trying hard to express (bless him, i am sure after this thread he is a broken man), this limitation is not so prevalent as one might suggest as the Cartridge stores all the routines, graphics, sound everything. In the end, the REAL truth is the MD is a wonderful bit of kit, and one I am glad to own, infact i own 2 of them plus a MD on an ASIC (MD3 ) for much hackery later An Amiga will outperform a MD on productivity and longevity as cart technology will only go so far until you hit a physical or more so financial brick wall. where as with an Amiga its oooo add a ROM drive.... or ooooo add some RAM / CPU / Sound Car / gfx card.. although its all true, its hardly fair to compare a static console built in 1989 to a computer of 1995... but its fun and we all get to learn something |
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21 June 2008, 12:13 | #105 |
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Ahhh yes copper trickery! a very good a solid point....
some megadrive graphical specs
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How many games actually did that though?
Other than for colourful backdrops I mean. Last edited by Ian; 21 June 2008 at 12:38. |
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The Beast series did. It wasn't just used for raster backgrounds, some of the better coders used it for reloading physical graphics on screen. |
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21 June 2008, 13:22 | #108 |
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For instance
Jim Power 1082 colours : http://hol.abime.net/pic_preview/scr...8_screen13.jpg
Beast 1 860 Colours: http://hol.abime.net/pic_preview/scr...91_screen4.jpg Fire n Brimstone 874 Colours: http://hol.abime.net/pic_full/screen...44_screen6.png Deliverance 1081 Colours: http://hol.abime.net/pic_full/screen...2_screen21.png Just a few examples |
21 June 2008, 13:46 | #109 |
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Jim power push 106 colors on the title screen alone, where the credits are shown, and where there is the parallax.
In game show something like between 85-100 colors on screen, not more. |
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1082 colors ?
*rolls eyes* Come on, you can't put 1082 colors at once on screen. HMM.. color count on the screenshot is 1082, but I mostly see samey color in the palette. Actually, I don't see any of these colors being used in the screenshot. The palette has more colors than those being actually used. |
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Ah, may I remind you:
your picture has a watermark in it. The original screenshot's been tampered with. Do not consider PNG palette size to be equal to actual number of colors being used on screen by the game. |
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That watermark will not allow me to do a proper comparison, buyt even reducing the watermarked image to 256 colors bears no change in the image, meaning it has less than 256. 128 doesn't seem to bring a difference either, thus, the game has less than 128 on screen at once. Reducing it to 64 starts bringing problems, but then again, there's the watermark.
So the game has less than 128 and more than 64, drfsilver's figures are probably spot-on |
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Jim Power is a dual playfield game, so 'technically' it only has 16 colours, but gets its rest from copper reloading. |
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I took my own shots with WinUAE and there was 94 in the first section and around 86 after the first "boss" when everything went sort of green.
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The color analysis of Gimp 2 gives me 1515 colors
There are many colors on the screenshot, but I think like Akira and Ian said there are about 100 on screen. |
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As I said, the screenshot in HOL has a watermark, it has been tampered with.
Whoever saved the PNG did so with a palette that has many more colors than those ACTUALLY USED. Ian's figures are correct. Use proper gfx tools for color counting and do not use HOL screenshots as gauge (I used the same screenshot you posted, Galahad, and as I said, i got to the same result, because of what I said, details you are overlooking). You can get a shitload more colors using copper reloading but not as many as 1082 at the same time on screen. Not even 800. |
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5 colours are enough...
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21 June 2008, 15:57 | #119 |
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spiff used irfan view for a colour counting last year. 107 unique colours for Jim Power. I don't know if it's really true.
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21 June 2008, 18:28 | #120 |
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It's true. If the image you pick as been compressed or modified, the number of colors is CHANGED !
That's why galahad find 1082 colors. an uncompressed screen shot taken with winuae with no artifacts give between 85-107 more or less. HOL screenshots are not LOSSY screens, they are modified ! Risky woods is 64 colors as stated in the credits, with a big use of copper. |
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