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lysacetoday at 12:33 PM1 replyview on HN

Also, VGA had 256 colors. The Amiga had 4,096 simultaneously.

That's the highly special hold-and-modify mode (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hold-And-Modify). I tried pretty hard to word my comment fairly, remembering the sometimes legendary tenacity of Amiga fans. (Which nowadays includes yours truly.)


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vidarhtoday at 1:06 PM

Or using the copper. Plenty of Amiga games played palette tricks despite not using HAM.

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