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From: seanc@pro-party.cts.com (Sean Cunningham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga/Atari help
Message-ID: <2127@crash.cts.com>
Date: 7 Apr 90 17:16:02 GMT
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In-Reply-To: message from cs325ec@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu

 
Tell me, can you expand your ST beyond 4Mb?  Regardless of how easy it is? 
The A500 has several options now of fully expanding to the AUTO-CONFIG 9Mb
limit...above that, the user can still add memory using addmem...
 
What's the point of having a 68030?  Do you have any programs that take
advantage of it's FPU?  There are several packages available for the Amiga,
though most are graphics oriented, that can use the '881/'882.
 
You might think 512 colors are enough, but that's in 320x200
resolution...yuck!  We can go 4096 all the way up to 384x480...no
comparison...oh, and can you animate those Spectrum pictures?  We can even go
out to the full color pallette at 768x480, if the picture is composed
right...there is a readily available board that lets the user view 764x484
pictures at 21bits per pixel (2.1M)...and one is soon to be available that
will let us do 256 in hires, with no loss in system speed (Black Belt), and
will do over 232,000 colors in HAM resolution modes.  This product will RETAIL
for just under $300.
 
I can see where you Atari users are coming from..."misery loves company."  But
take it somewhere else...
 
Sean
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