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From: tron1@tronsbox.UUCP (HIM)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Better Graphics
Keywords: graphics display
Message-ID: <25b8e547:3887.6comp.sys.amiga;1@tronsbox.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jan 90 22:34:05 GMT
References: <1010@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> <345@vixen.uucp>
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>  Resp: 5 of 5 by *Masked* at vixen.uucp
>Author: [Joe Hitchens]
>  Date: Sat Jan 20 1990 05:57 
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>not matter.  A KLUDGE is a "patch" or "band-aid" that gets the results
>you want, but does not really correct the underlying problem.
>The problem being the limitations of the Amiga hardware and OS.
>(You experts can correct me if I haven't defined "KLUDGE" properly)

But the PC VGA card is a "kludge" by that defibition. It is a harware
PERIPHERIAL that overcomes the limitation of PC's (no built in video). By
that definition, any video system that is an add on is a kludge right? This
includes the "FlickerFixer" BTW.

>Amiga.  Notice I didn't say "programming", I said "GRAPHICS".  I
>DRAW pictures, I don't write neat programs to generate them or manipulate
>them.

Then please don't presume to know how the BB will affect software developers.

>I want to use an Amiga.  I want to use DPaint.  I want to
>do EXACTLY what I do now, but do it with 8 bitplanes.

Now , the wuestion is , HOW do you expect to upgrade the harware in ANY way
at all without getting new software ??? Any new video mode will require a re-
write of DPAINT , and a re-write for the BB device is no harder than any
other.

>I don't want to have to have magic cookies in my pictures, and I

YOU dont. You will never draw them , you will never SEE them.

>don't want an in-compatible IFF format that PC's and other systems
>that read IFF ILBM's would choke on.  I want a standard 8-plane ILBM.

ANY new mode will require PC programs to re-evaluate the way they handle
IFF. In REALITY , the BB iff should be mapped AS a > 8 bit IFF file. It will
be up to the machine reading the IFF to show that. (In fact , that is the
way IFF is written now.)

>The black belt thing is really tempting, but I just don't think it
>can quite do what I need it to.  I really want it to badly though.

You are presuming something you admit to not having experience with (how the
BB will affect the people that write the software you use). Trust me, you
will get a paint program that can do the job.

>j.h.


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