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From: bli@aludra.usc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: DigiView display question?
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Date: 7 Jul 90 06:07:29 GMT
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I was wondering if anyone here knows how Newtek displays those pseudo-24bit
images on the stock amiga, and in hires?

I for one am intersted in displaying 8-bit graphics (max 256 colors) on the
Amiga, at 640x400. Can anyone suggest a way to do that? What does Newtek do
to hog the whole amiga while displaying the pic? I suppose it must do quite
a lot of dithering (anyone knows what kind?) and I heard that it also does
Gamma correction. Is that all?

Thanks.

(p.s. I am asking this, since I remember few months ago that there was
a lot of talk (and flaming) on c.s.amiga about the 'kludgy' display modes,
and a number of people claimed that they can write their own, but will
not because they don't like the concept. Well, like a previous question
here about writting self-modifying code, pretend this is for 
purely academic reasons.)

P.p.s. will forward all worthwhile mail responses. Posting is fine for me, 
but I don't know if others are interested.