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From: steveg@umd5.umd.edu (Steve Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Constructive Question
Message-ID: <6382@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: 11 Apr 90 05:14:11 GMT
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Reply-To: steveg@umd5.umd.edu (Steve Green)
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In article <16450@snow-white.udel.EDU> BARRETT%FOREST.ECIL.IASTATE.EDU@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Marc Barrett) writes:
>[...]
>   If this card can do this, this may be Commodore's way out of the
>fix that they've found themselves in with the now-far-superior video
>capabilities of the Apple 8/24GC video card.  If the A2360 can
>accomplish a normal 320x200 6-bitplane HAM mode, then it should
>also be able to accomplish a 1024x768 8-bitplane "Extended HAM" mode
>(262,144 colors at once!).  If the card can switch palettes between
>scanlines (A LA Dynamic HiRes) then it could display approx. 200,000
>colors at once (256 colors per line * 768 lines).  If it can do
>both, Apple would be in deep trouble!
>[...]

Actually, with the standard Apple monitor and 8/24 card,
you would be limited to 307,200 colors at one out of as pallette
out of the 16.8 million.  (One color per pixel).   With a 1024x768x8
card for the Mac, the number is boosted up to 786,432 colors at once. 

200,000 colors would not affect Apple sales 1 BIT. :-)

--
What do these names have in common?
Bob, Flo, Augie, Curtis, Gordon, Rick, Rhonda, Meep, Bismark, Skip.
	...did I miss any??			steveg@umd5.umd.edu