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Spectrum 512 *.SPU

80 words first scan line of picture (unused) -- should be zeroes
15920 words picture data (screen memory) for scan lines 1 through 199
9552 words 3 palettes for each scan line (the top scan line is
not included because Spectrum 512 can't display it)
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51104 bytes total

Note that the Spectrum 512 mode's three palette changes per scan
line allow more colors on the screen than normally possible, but a
tremendous amount of CPU time is required to maintain the image.

The Spectrum format specifies a palette of 48 colors for each scan line.
To decode a Spectrum picture, one must be know which of these 48 colors
are in effect for a given horizontal pixel position.

Given an x-coordinate (from 0 to 319) and a color index (from 0 to 15),
the following C function will return the proper index into the Spectrum
palette (from 0 to 47):

/*
* Given an x-coordinate and a color index, returns the corresponding
* Spectrum palette index.
*
* by Steve Belczyk; placed in the public domain December, 1990.
*/
int
FindIndex(x, c)
int x, c;
{
int x1;

x1 = 10 * c;

if (1 & c) /* If c is odd */
x1 = x1 - 5;
else /* If c is even */
x1 = x1 + 1;

if (x >= x1 && x < x1 + 160)
c = c + 16;
else if (x >= x1 + 160)
c = c + 32;

return c;
}
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