Hold-And-Modify
Display mode used in Commodore Amiga computers / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Hold-And-Modify,[1][2][3] usually abbreviated as HAM,[4] is a display mode of the Commodore Amiga computer.[5] It uses a highly unusual technique to express the color of pixels, allowing many more colors to appear on screen than would otherwise be possible. HAM mode was commonly used to display digitized photographs or video frames,[6] bitmap art and occasionally animation. At the time of the Amiga's launch in 1985, this near-photorealistic display was unprecedented for a home computer and it was widely used to demonstrate the Amiga's graphical capability.[7] However, HAM has significant technical limitations which prevent it from being used as a general purpose display mode.
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