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From: C503719@umcvmb.missouri.edu (Baird McIntosh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Black Belt Video
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Date: 15 Jan 90 17:19:23 GMT
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In article <5357@tekig5.pen.tek.com>, waynekn@tekig5.pen.tek.com (Wayne Knapp)
> [lots of punches back and forth in a 'discussion' that is rapidly
>    degenerating into something a bit warmer.]
>
>However I will take a pot shot at you now.  In the posting about how
>the Black Belt video works (a really nice posting by the way) there
>is a detail about the 8 bit HAM mode.  The posting states that over
>260,000 colors are possible on screen.  Well isn't that a bit hard
>with less than 40,000 pixels.  (Should say something like > 30,000
>colors out of 260,000 possible).  Maybe we should all watch our math
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>a little closer.
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Seems to me, being a Math/CS major :-), that in 8 bit HAM mode the BBV
will allow about 64,000 (320 times 200) simultaneous colors on a lo-res screen.
Double that to 128,000 (320 times 400) for lo-res interlaced screens.  For
lo-res overscanned interlaced screens you can probably display upwards of
150,000 colors out of the 262,000 total possible.  And, of course each of those
colors is out of the palette of 16 million.

You can post and correct/flame me OR post and flame the BBV some more, but
maybe we oughta wait till the thing gets produced/distributed.  The original
post was, after all, merely a product announcement and stated clearly that the
release was imminent in the *future*.

After all, if what you want out of this discussion is a cookie...well, wait for
the BBV's release; Black Belt has designed 'cookies' into their video format.
:-) :-)

>                                         Wayne Knapp

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