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From: seh@pmafire.UUCP (Steve Holaday)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Better Amiga Graphics and HDTV
Message-ID: <1990Jul13.144616.21100@pmafire.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jul 90 14:46:16 GMT
References: <3484@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: seh@pmafire.UUCP (Steve Holaday)
Organization: WINCO Computer Engineering
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I agree that a new graphic standard should be 32 bits (per pixel).
However only 24 bits are needed for the color information which will
give you around 16 million colors (2^24).  This essentially covers
all visible colors.  The remaining 8 bits should be used for attributes,
such as blinking, depth, alt. pointers, etc.  This will fit in good
with a 32-bit bus.  BTW the pallet should only needs to be large
enough to display 1 million pixels (2^20 or less).  This will allow each
pixel of a 1024 by 1024 display to be a different color.  This should be
more than enough for quite some time :-).  Unfortunately a 640 by 400
display at 32 bits occupies just under 1 Meg Byte.  For dual playfields,
double this.  That *is* a lot of information which may not be practical
to implement.    ...Just my $0.02 :-).
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