Thanks, i'm not a coder, so hopefully some more tech savy people will fill us in
The fixed HAM palette in Pioneer Plague is very interesting, only that Coder seemed to use it. Sadly he passed away I wonder if that means AGA could have a 1000 colour fixed palette mode without fringing?
Lionheart was drawn by one of my favourite pixel artists: Henk Nieborg http://www.henknieborg.nl/ he also did several other Amiga games. The best looking other than lionheart was probably
'The Misadventures of Flink'. I just missed out working with him when I was doing nintendoDS stuff for EA