160 x 200 x 136 colors, how?

what you really see is 320 x 200 x 16 colors but instead of writing single
pixels, you write pairs of pixels. So what this means is that you write a
byte to the screen. But a byte gives 256 possible values. How do you get
136 colors?

so there are 16 solid colors in the pallette:
     256 - 16 = 240

next since pixel ordering doesn't matter ($12 is the same as $21):
     240 / 2 = 120

so the total colors are the sum of the above
     16 + 120 = 136

to date this is the pallette that gives the most colors (135 out of 136)

color_Table	data                     ; colors
		dc i2'$0000'             ; 0  black
		dc i2'$0333'             ; 1  dark grey
		dc i2'$0777'             ; 2  medium grey
		dc i2'$0ccc'             ; 3  light grey
		dc i2'$0700'             ; 4  medium red
		dc i2'$0c00'             ; 5  light red
		dc i2'$0f00'             ; 6  red
		dc i2'$0070'             ; 7  medium green
		dc i2'$00f0'             ; 8  green
		dc i2'$0007'             ; 9  medium blue
		dc i2'$000c'             ; 10 light blue
		dc i2'$000f'             ; 11 blue
		dc i2'$00ee'             ; 12 cyan
		dc i2'$0ee0'             ; 13 yellow
		dc i2'$0e0e'             ; 14 purple
		dc i2'$0FFF'             ; 15 white
               end

this table shows the rgb colors:

          0   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10  11  12  13  14  15
   0   : 000 222 444 666 400 600 800 040 080 004 006 008 077 770 707 888
   1   :     333 555 888 522 822 922 252 292 225 228 229 299 992 929 999
   2   :         777 AAA 744 A44 B44 474 4B4 447 44A 44B 4BB BB4 B4B BBB
   3   :             CCC A66 C66 E66 6A6 6E6 66A 66C 66E 6DD DD6 D6D EEE
   4   :                 700 A00 B00 440 480 404 406 408 477 B70 B07 B88
   5   :                     C00 E00 640 680 604 606 608 677 D70 D07 E88
   6   :                         F00 840 880 804 806 808 877 F70 F07 F88
   7   :                             070 0B0 044 046 048 0B7 7B0 747 8B8
   8   :                                 0F0 084 086 088 0F7 7F0 787 8F8
   9   :                                     007 00A 00B 07B 774 70B 88B
  10   :                                         00C 00E 07D 776 70D 88E
  11   :                                             00F 07F 778 70F 88F
  12   :                                                 0EE 7E7 77E 8FF
  13   :                                                     EE0 E77 FF8
  14   :                                                         E0E F8F
  15   :                                                             FFF

if your having trouble spotting the two same colors,
its $888 which would be $13 and $0F

Now if anyone could tell me how I save a 640 x 480 picture to an apple prefered
format which would now be 1280 x 480 GS pixels or what paint program could
handle it.

Poly fills the screen with random sized triangles.

Line has 4 random line widths and 15 random line styles. Watch for the
screen erase for a glimps of all the colors and no that is not quickdraw
drawing the lines.

George Tumblin
gtumblin@prodigy.net