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From: Graham Goring <graham@duketastrophy.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.2d_graphics
Subject: Re: Dim bloke with a TIM
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 01:04:50 +0000
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James Russell wrote:

> Graham Goring wrote:
> >
>
> Ah! It's the man from the usenet groups! What a duketastrophy!

Blim! You're the first person to get where that came from!


> > Um, I have a question, does the width of 16 above refer to 16 bytes
> or
> > 16 2-byte words?
>
> Hmm, you must be in a really big quizibuk. The width of 16 for a 4 bit
> CLUT means 16 texels, or 32
> bytes of main ram. Since you can specify 16 different colours in 4
> bits, and each colour takes up 1
> texel (2 bytes), then thats 16 texels (32 bytes).

Phew, that's what I thought. I didn't realise that texture page widths
where measured in texels though (seeing as I've only really been playing
other people's stuff on the Yaroze so far). Makes complete and utter
sense.


>
>
> James
> (Who knows a Critic fan when he sees one)

Good-oh!