[Oberon] paint.mod - support for colours

[Magnus Karlsson]

/In Pepino-Oberon VID file, there is a change from 3-bit to 8-bit video, 
does this mean that H/W already support more colours?/

The original Digilent Spartan3 board had 3 bit video (i.e. 8 colors 
possible).  OberonStation
has 6 bit video (i.e 64 colors possible) and Pepino has 8 bit video (256 
colors possible).
For Oberon, all 3, 6 or 8 bits are either off or on for a monochrome 
display.

As you can see on the Pepino wiki page some project (like Super Mario 
Brothers and Pacman) are using multi-color display.

Magnus

On 3/30/2016 10:59 AM, Tomas Kral wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Still thinking about Oberon-FPGA colours, while I am no expert on
> u-electrocnics.
>
> What if the resolution is decreased to keep the same memory buffer, and
> perhaps make the bigger point size then (= twin, quad pixels). I am led
> to believe this would be similar to ATARI ST / Sinclair QL, the higher
> resolution the fewer colours, and vice versa? Or am I thinking of
> something silly and complicated?
>
> In Pepino-Oberon VID file, there is a change from 3-bit to 8-bit video,
> does this mean that H/W already support more colours?
>
> Many thanks.
> Tomas

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