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From: rjc@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell)
Subject: Re: CDTV News
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Date: Sun, 30 Jun 91 22:35:05 GMT
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In article <1991Jun30.205817.4347@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Barrett Marc N) writes:
>In article <13636@uwm.edu> gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu writes:
>>Okay.  Now you can hold on.  Who the hell ever said they were
>>COMFORTABLE????  I'd love 8bit graphics.  I don't want a 24bit graphic
>>chipset.  It's a bad idea.  That's for graphic boards to handle, and
>>for DIG to deal with, IMHO.  What is needed now is an 8bit graphic
>>chipset to compare directly with VGA.  Argh.
>>
>   One more thought... it would be very typical for Commodore to finally
>adopt 8-bit color, right when 8-bit color is obsolete.  Face it, 8-bit
>color is fast becoming obsolete, and all companies are moving past 8-bit

  Marc, will you "make up your own mind"!. First you 8bit color, then you
don't, then you want DIG, then you dont, you're beginning to become
a whiner. J Townsend just posted a list of numerous 24bit color
cards for the Amiga, what's you point? These cards are expensive.
If you want to move 640x480x24 (almost one megabyte) of data around, you
need a co-processor. If C= came out with a 1024x1024x24 display
tommorow for $500 and it didn't have some kind of fast datamover
onboard I would not buy it.

>to higher color capabilities.  CD-I is 24-bit, Apple has 24-bit video

  Kevin, correct me if I'm wrong, but CD-I has  a 24bit palette, but it
does not display 24bits per pixel. (well, it certainly doesn't on
TV!)

>cards for the MAC and one system with 15-bit color practically built-in
>(on the LC, all the hardware for 15-bit color is there, except for the
>memory).  VGA is also moving past 8-bit color, as the new VEGA standard
>supports 15-bit color.  

  Sure, does the VEGA standard require a blitter onbiard? if it doesn't
those sure will make nice still pictures.

>   Yesterday's technology, ad infinitum...

  Marc, what do you want from Commodore? Do you want a new Amiga
model with an 8bit chipset that can animate? Do you want a 24bit
chipset? Do you want the Amiga to be cheap or expensive? Do you want DIG
with high end RISC boards?
  A few days ago you say "C= needs a new 8bit chipset for A500
machines." Now you're saying 24bit. You are not going to sell
a machine with built in 24bits per pixel graphics for under $500.

>>Socrates:  "I drank WHAT????"
>>LMFAP:  "Next time you see me, it won't be me."
>>Wubba:  "A dream is nothing more than a wish dipped in chocolate and sprinkled
>>with a little imagination." (From my poem, "A Dream")			-Wubba
>
>
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