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Originally Posted by twobob
The 4bpp thing was from the official press release (It's linked in the thread you cite IIRC)
REALLY pleased to hear that is is not.
Typical shenanigans with the graphics, thanks for bringing this thread back to my attention guys..
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Well, it technically *IS* 4bpp, but duplicated so it occupies 8bpp. In each byte, the top 4 bits is cloned into the bottom 4 bits. In my "newtrix" demo I have 8-bit dithering code that handles this "8-bit" video mode, and dithers it to provide the equivalent of 256 shades of grey.