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From: krag@cup.portal.com (Kevin Ray Grotjohn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Better Graphics
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Date: 16 Jan 90 04:54:41 GMT
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Why commodore couldn't have modified the graphics chips to do what the 
HAME BOX is doing.  Then you wouldn't need the cookie in an IFF file.
Just read in a 24 bit IFF HAM file and send a signal to the chips to go into 
HAM-E mode.  I'd rather have this sorta "kludge" than productivity mode.
Plus it cost about the same $300 for the black belt box, or the 1.4 ROM
+Fat Augnus and Superdenise and labor.