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Subject: Re: Purchase decision, to STe or not?
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Date: 25 Sep 90 15:25:18 GMT
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In article <4619@crash.cts.com> oleg@crash.cts.com (Oleg Rovner) writes:
>Here's the scoop. I need advice on whether to buy a 1040STe or an
>Amiga 500. I have owned Amigas for 5 years, and so I am familiar with
>their features. I don't know diddly about the new STe other than 4096
>colors, stereo, and 4Mbytes  board by using different SIMMs.
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>The questions that I have are as follow|s:
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>1. Is there software to take advantage of the new modes

  Yes there are several new programs that use the 4096 colour
 palette mode. However screen resolution modes havnt changed
 so there are few problems with compatability except that the
 existing Tos is 1.6 and the newer revised STE's are suppose to
 have a newer TOS with fancier Deskstop features.
 You wont regret buying an STE for the simple fact their are hundreds     
more ST BBS's than Amiga ones because there is little or no Amiga BBS    
software avaiable except for the IBM Bridgeboard junk that doest count.     
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>2. What sort of good (ie real time, 640x400x4)4 or 5 or 6)
>animation/painting software is there for the STe

  I know of several packages for animation painting for example
 Cyber Studio,Aegis Animator and now Phase 4! Phase 4 being the  
 most recent and versatile of them all. It will be also porte to  
 the TT as well.

   There are many other painting programs like Paint Master, Canvas
 Degas Elite, Stos Paint, Spectrum 512 etc.  Spectrum being one that     
 supports brilliant colour display using pixel alliasing.      


>3. If I want to run DTP stuff, do I need the monochrome monito{ ?
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>BTW does STe have high res color, or is it the same as the ST,
>640x200is
>the highest color resolution? Does the STe do full real overscan?

   No you dont require a monchrome mointor for many packages but
some are best used in Monochrome mode. Timeworks Deskstop Publishing
that I run is better used in Medium resolution on an RGB Multisync
monitor. (Which for ST bashers handles ALL RESOLUTION MODES!, Including
the new TT resoluton modes.) Analog Multisync RGB Monitors can be bought
cheaply via JDR Microdevices or local IBM clone shop. You can buy used    
monochrome monitors for a cheap as 80 bucks used so its not a problem
getting one later on.    .

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