Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!cica!ctrsol!lll-winken!arisia!sgi!shinobu!odin!odin.corp.sgi.com!portuesi From: portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Neptune Voyager Pix directly viewable on Amiga Message-ID: Date: 5 Sep 89 09:20:58 GMT References: <21728@cup.portal.com> <2497@pur-phy> Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mtn. View, CA Lines: 17 In-reply-to: murphy@pur-phy's message of 1 Sep 89 14:02:22 GMT In article <2497@pur-phy> murphy@pur-phy (William J. Murphy) writes: Although HAM will sacrifice some resolution, it will allow more gray scale approximations. No, it won't. The Amiga has four bits of color resolution each for R, G and B. It is limited to sixteen greyscales no matter what display mode you choose. They can all be displayed in a high-res image. --M -- __ \/ Michael Portuesi Silicon Graphics Computer Systems, Inc. portuesi@SGI.COM "$16,000! And all he wanted to do was dip us in plaster!"