Colors on the Amiga

[evil_nerd]

Hello,

I am wondering how much colors a Amiga 500 can display. I have read 16, 32, 64, 4096, but I don't understand. There's a pallat of 4096 colors isn't it? Depending on the mode you can have 16, 32 or 64 colors. But in most Amiga games I see much more colors, very nice indeed, but how do they do that? Is there some trick or something? It wouldn't be logic if the Amiga is limited to 64 colors, because a MSX2 (a few years earlier) could display 512 colors!!! So, can anybody explain this???

[evil_nerd]

Yes but its always nice to ask it on a forum where are more people around  :lol:  :-P  :-D  :laughing:  ;-)

But what I ask is is there a trick or something? The games that I've seen have more than 32 colors (some are on the PC VGA (256 colors))

[evil_nerd]

Thomas's reply was bang on. If a bit technical
The amiga A500 hardware could display 16 or 32 colours in game. The copper could be used to change colours per line for all those lovely fades you see in amiga games

so you can change the pallet per line of pixels or something?

It also had a 4096 HAM mode (mainly for static imagery- Art programs, adventure games, loading screens etc). You could also have different colour/resolution screens dragged up for menu bars etc. I used have a ham hires mod player that looked like a stereo- it used to sit at the bottom of a 16 clour lo-res workbench

The the A500+ and A600 EHB mode was added allowing 64 colours (darker versions of the first 32 colours)

This is all in hardware: coders produced their own code for introducing more colours: Lion heart had hundreds of colours on screen, as did Universe (256 from 4096) rumour has it they picked certain ham colours that caused no fringing, and just diplayed them.

fringing? whats that? Whats HAM? 16 or 32 color?

[evil_nerd]

Ok, its a little bit more clear for me now Although I have to study HAM a few times more before I understand it  :-o

[evil_nerd]

ok I wanna give it a try! Using C, I wanna make some graphics But whats a good tutorial (never programmed on an Amiga before, is it much different from x86?

[evil_nerd]

No, I understand that #include will not work :-) But before I buy the CD, are there good sites on this topic?