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Introduction I was asked how we got so many colours onto the screen in Amiga Fire & Ice\. The count was something like 200\. How Many? Every raster line of the game screen can have a separate background colour, though with only 4-bit values of red, green and blue, one runs out of colours rather quickly in a sunset fade\. I had a macro in my assembler that was able to define a list of colours to fade in the Turrican 2 style\. That is, we interleave the new colour with the previous colour and d...