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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Video Mess (was RE: More Marc...)
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Date: 24 Sep 90 15:24:03 GMT
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BARRETT@owl.ecil.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) writes:



|   They are all totally useless for anything other than video applications.
|Not all of us are use our computers for video applications.  Actually, very
|very few of us use our systems for video applications.  So, how do any of
|these products help applications like CAD, DTP, scientific, or multimedia
|applications that require a high-resolution non-interlaced display with
|lots of colors?  They answer is that they don't.  

Not speaking for DTP, or multi-media, but I haven't seen any 24 bit CAD programs
MArC. Most cad programs only have around 16 colors or so. Maybe more if you
port the drawing into some raytracer type program like AutoShade. But 16 is
plenty for the CAD portion. And the Amiga can handle that pretty well. The
real problem for the Amiga is not the video standard for doing CAD, its a
lack of [good] CAD softaware. 640 x 400 16 Colors (de interlaced with flicker
fixer) is plenty for most peoples needs as far as CAD goes. Higher resolution
is nice, but I worked in 640 x 400 EGA on AutoCAD for about 3 years on a
PC clone and it was not too bad. I now have 1024 x 768 on a 486 machine and
still only have 16 colors in AutoCAD. About the only thing the higher resolution
does for me is to save me from zooming in as much.



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