Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!bellcore!bellcore-2!rutgers!cbmvax!uunet!munnari.oz.au!brolga!bunyip!iceman!cpca From: cpca@iceman.jcu.oz (C Adams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Cheesy Amiga Video Message-ID: <944@iceman.jcu.oz> Date: 11 Sep 90 01:45:31 GMT References: <29435@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <939@iceman.jcu.oz> <928@sagpd1.UUCP> Organization: JCUNQ, Townsville, Qld, Australia Lines: 56 In article <928@sagpd1.UUCP>, monty@sagpd1.UUCP (Monty Saine) writes: > This would be a waste for the area that the CDTV is targeted. In > fact the guidelines for development for the CDTV clearly state > that even hi-res should be avoided. The CDTV is intended to display > on a standard TV. Have you seen hi-res on a standard TV???? The guide Yes, I realize the high resolution modes would be useless on a TV, but 8 bitplane video would be quite useful. According to the Hardware reference manaul there are even enough 'slots' to access the bitplanes, so the problem must be the NMOS chips.... (even though the processor would be locked out during the display time) What I would like to see is a byte-per-pixel screen mode, as the setup is much faster to manipulate, but the arch. is not setup for one. > ^^^^^^^^ > I may be wrong on this one, but.. I thoughty 2.0 supported 8 color > workbench screens. I have heard 2.0 workbench can support > 4 colours on screen, but at least on the a3000 I saw, it boots in 4.... and that is what I saw it demo'ed in.... (options are great but most people don't find out about them unless they buy an Amiga) > To whom wouldn't it have mattered? What would happen to all the faithful > developers that are still hanging on when they suddenly have products > that have lost their market? Why would virtual memory make the Amiga > suddenly attractive to Lotus/Borland. The last I saw the brain dead > architecture that they currently write for does not have virtual memory. Ideally you would have the option to boot the operating system in non- protected mode. I really want memory protection because I program the Amiga, if software worked the way it was supposed to, then there really wouldn't be much need for it. Just if IBM have it and Commodore don't then IBM will convince people that Amigas are unreliable. To get major software developers onto the Amiga, I believe it takes the existance of good software, as this is what sell machines, and developers write for the best market. (Catch 22 situation) Borland and Lotus are writing for windows now, with VM, although if windows had no VM they would still be writing for it.... > The best cure for this lack of coverage is for loyal Amiga writers > to submit article to these publications that intelligently point > out the pros and cons of the three leading systems in multimedia. Magazines seem to enjoy abusing the Amiga, they particularly enjoy printing Commodores losses for the xth quarter. (the only time Commodore get a mention in The Australian papers computer section is when they announce a loss!) I doubt Commodore have the money to put advertisements everywhere, for unless they create sales, it's dead money. ******************************************************************** Colin Adams Life's funny but I don't laugh ********************************************************************