Is the drawBitmap API supported for 256 colors?

Pokitto Programming
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The resolution of my game is 96 x 64. So I think I will use 110x88 mode.

http://daimonsoft.info/kuran_kuran/index.php?TinyArcade%2FTinySTG

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96x64 is only 6k. We can make a buffered mode still. What is this TinyArcade? Is it th eone by TinyCircuits?

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Yes. I made a game at Tiny Arcade of Tiny Circuits. It is compatible with ArduinoZero. I also want to make games at pokitto.

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Do you want to try the 110x88 @ 16 color mode or do you need 96x64 @ 256 ?

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I want 96x64@256 or 110x88@256.
Transplantation is impossible in 16 colors.

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I will add a 96x64@256 mode. It will take a bit of time, but is not difficult to do.

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Thank you.
I am looking forward to the arrival of pokitto.

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can you do that color extension in any size?

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Yes.

A) new resolution - making a new screen resolution requires just a few things:

  1. definition of the mode in the header files (screen buffer size, width, height)
  2. new routines for blasting the pixels from the buffer to the screen. This is basically a copy-paste of the existing other modes, slightly modified

B) new bit depth mode:

  1. new putpixel routine
  2. new linedraw, column and row routines (they are optimized for different bit depths)
  3. new bitmap routines (also optimized for different bit depths)

But after A&B are done, you can easily create new modes. Your real limit is the amount of memory you can spare for the display buffer.

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pokitto_tinystg.jpg486×660 55.3 KB

The screen is displayed.
The color is strange as it forcedly displayed it. FPS is also very slow.

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You need to make your own palette, if you want to use 16 colors

Edit: slow FPS may be because you are not using the game.update() in the right way (it is refreshing every cycle)

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Since it was able to build except the screen and sound, I wait for new resolution correspondence.
Thanks for the advice.

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Could you post a screenshot / graphics of what the end result is supposed to look like?

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Lower 4 bits of 256 colors are forcibly displayed.
So colors will not be displayed properly.
Since the game itself is working properly, we just optimize the game to pokitto.

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I understand. But the reason I am asking is because if you choose good colors, 16 is almost as good as 256. if you give me a 256 color screenshot, i can quickly check how it works in 16 colors with optimized palette.

this is what you can do with 16 colors when you optimize palette:

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This is Windows version screen shot.

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thanks! i will do a small test

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At 16 colors:

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And with a bit more color tuning

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your using dithering so sprites are 4x size, just so you know