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From: rogers@falcon.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Brynn Rogers)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: RIX color editor/paint for PC
Message-ID: <24443@srcsip.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jun 89 13:30:04 GMT
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Reply-To: rogers@falcon.UUCP (Brynn Rogers)
Organization: Honeywell Systems & Research Center, Camden, MN
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I have been looking for a good paint type program that handles the
super-duper VGA resolutions of 800x600x256.  The only one I have seen
is RIX, and it looked okay from the outside of the box (it has drivers
for most super VGA boards). The only thing that didn't look good was
the price, $175  [I may have dropped bits here, but it was 100<$$$<200]

Is it worth it?   does anybody have experiance with RIX ?

S.N.F.A.D.T. [side note for a different thread]
>> ... PCs are all palette bound ...
not true. ATT Targa 16 cards do 64K colors per pixel at 512x512
There are lots of other boards that can handle 16 or 24 bits per pixel,
they just cost more than $2K.  [ a Targa 16 might be a little less ]

 Brynn Rogers    Honeywell S&RC        rogers@src.honeywell.com
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