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by Cockbrand 928 days ago
Yeah, that should probably read 160x200. IIRC, most C64 games ran at that resolution. This was called “high resolution graphics” in the marketing material, mind you :)
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vardump 927 days ago
C64 hi-res graphics was 320x200, two selectable colors for each 8x8 char sized block. So 16 colors on the screen, but...

See: https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/High_Resolution

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Cockbrand 926 days ago
That makes much more sense, thanks! I mixed something up there, or I just misunderstood the marketing material as a kid.
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vardump 926 days ago
You can get far past those limitations with nufli, which uses sprite layers and some other trickery.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170104014040/http://c64pixels....

The images really look like that on C64 screen, with absolutely no flickering etc.

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