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From: bobl@pro-graphics.cts.com (Bob Lindabury)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: How about Sliced EHB ??
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Date: 10 Dec 89 06:16:11 GMT
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> In article <8912030118.AA15320@en.ecn.purdue.edu> bevis@EE.ECN.PURDUE.EDU (Jeff
> Bevis) writes:
> 
>> Is it just me, or is anyone else out there getting disturbed by all of the
>> dynamic/sliced/diced/minced display modes involving cpu-intesive activity,
>> just to bring up the image?  I mean, what are things migrating toward here?
>> The hardware should display the images, and the software should NOT have to
>> worry about them.  (you know what I mean)
> 
> I think I know what you mean. You're not complaining about the new modes, but
> about all the software hassle we have to go through to *get* these new modes,
> right? I agree. It seems to me that this is a sign that the Amiga is lagging a
> bit in it's graphics technology. When the Amiga came out in '84 it's graphics
> was astounding, but geez that was almost 6 years ago. Now most everyone else is
> catching up and surpassing us. IBM has new extended VGA cards that do 640 x 480
> with 256 colors (not interlaced either) and the Mac has the same resolution
> with what? 16 million colors?

Hi John,

Actually, the super VGA cards now do 800x600x256.  I have one here. It's a
Willow VGA-TV with 512k onboard and it works like a champ.  These modes are
starting to give the Amiga a run for it's money.  What we really need is
either Commodore to come out with a special hi-res 8-16 bit video card for the
video slot or some sort of deal with Truevision or one of the clone makers to
produce a card of real value for the Amiga.  If a few software developers
would also get on the band wagon and either update or produce software for
such a card, I think we would finally move into a world of better, easier to
work with graphics.

This new Hi-res HAM mode is nice, but from what I understand, it's all show
and no go.  Takes over the machine and you could never do any animations in
that mode much less paint in that mode.  And using Digipaint with a window
isn't an option..it's just not feesable for a real application.

Would love to see Nu-bus...just pop in a NuVista card...then all you have to
worry about is software.

-- Bob
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