Marble Eyes have just released a new TrueColour patch for Genetic Species, obviously, its only available to those with GFX boards, below is the full press release...

Marble-Eyes Development is proud to announce the release of a new Genetic Species AddOn. And what an addon: 24 bit finally hits an Amiga game! So we're writing history.

In other words the Amiga and Genetic Species goes true colour, that means 16777216 colours per pixel. The human eye recognizes about 14 million colours but you'll get 2 million extra! :)

In order to support the 24bit screenmodes in Genetic Species we had to re-write all the functions which access the display screen. It has been a lot of work but looking at the result, the time has certainly paid off. The improvement is simply amazing. Not a single pixel is rendered in Genetic Species without putting it through an alpha channel - and the result will blast you away!

I know what you are thinking now, "The engine is probably damn slow in 24bit!".

Obviously the true colour screen modes take more processor time but due to heavy optimization the speed decrease is only marginal. Take a look at this speed test...

Platform: Amiga 4000/o60 50 Mhz, PicassoIV.
Settings: HighDetail Mapping, No Audio, 24 Bit True.

128x100: 50 Fps
160x126: 50 Fps
192x150: 33 Fps
224x176: 28 Fps
256x200: 16 Fps
288x226: 15 Fps
320x240: 13 Fps