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I knew it could do 4,096 colors and I played around with it in Deluxe Paint, but I don't recall any games that used it. Being a kid at the time, the games were

• vidarh 5y ago
  Games span a bit of a range. With the copper you could change the palette while the screen updated, so you could do more than 256 on AGA or more than 64 on ECS Amiga's, but even on AGA Amiga's (A1200, A4000, CD32) it was rare for games to even reach 256 because of memory bandwidth. 32-64 was a more common range. Even that often used copper tricks, because using fewer bitplanes meant less memory bandwidth used, and so it was often worthwhile using copper palette tricks. A handful of games did use HAM for up to 4096 colours, but mostly for static screens (there's somewhere in the region of half a dozen exceptions total)