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   John Ames to Atreyu   
   Re: Anyone left?   
   17 Jul 25 08:19:32   
   
   From: commodorejohn@gmail.com   
      
   On Thu, 17 Jul 2025 09:05:59   
   NOSPAM.sysop@darkrealms.ca (Atreyu) wrote:   
      
   > What about the rare 640x200x16 mode? I think only Deskmate uses that   
   > one?   
      
   There were a few games that used it, some of them basically doubling up   
   the pixels as an ordered-dither approximation of VGA/MCGA 320x200x256   
   mode (there are, IIRC, 136 unique combinations of 16-color pixel pairs,   
   not accounting for order, so it's reasonable enough if you squint just   
   right.)   
      
   I do have an RL and can try it, but I'm targeting the more common mode   
   first. Shouldn't be difficult to modify once I have it functional. (You   
   could actually do a simpler, more performant version if you *did* treat   
   it as functionally 320x200, since your "pixels" would be whole bytes,   
   but I'm not gonna bother with that.)   
      
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