Posted By
MMS
on 2014-06-22
16:43:42
 |  Re: Last Ninja questions
The BB Micro version is surprisingly good despite the 4 colors
But there is something wrong there.
The Youtube video evidently shows a 160x256 screen with 4 colors (double width pixels, and I also counted them to be sure  ) So it is mode 5. 4 colors with 160x256 resolution
But as I see on Wikipedia, the 160x256 resolution could be linked with 8 colors too (mode2), or the 320x256 resolution with 4 colors (mode1) could show more details. Both would look much better than this.
(just one idea: they wanted to have a version work with 32K RAM BBC Micro,in this way they freed up 10KB for the code instead of using for the gfx. I think it was not a wise decision, although i do not know how much % of the machines were only with 32K)
Anyhow, our 160x200 version should look better due to more colors, although BBC vesrion also looks all right
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