It's worth mentioning that the demo probably uses one of the craziest tricks that the Amiga hardware had up its sleeve. The color registers could be modified between the scanlines during the horizontal blank, that is during the time the monitor's electron beam moved back, right to left, after having painted a scanline.
Since nothing was being displayed during that period this could be done without the user noticing, yielding a new set of colors per line. 5/6
Gabriele Svelto /
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2024-05-20 21:26:57
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