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From: eeh@public.BTR.COM (Eduardo E. Horvath  eeh@btr.com)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Toaster NOT! shipped
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Date: 5 Oct 90 20:56:21 GMT
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In article <32459@nigel.ee.udel.edu> S36666WB%ETSUACAD.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu (Brian Wright) writes:
>Also the paint program to be included
>isn't real-time 24 bit, rather it uses a superbitmapped HAM screen to simulate
>24 bits and then you have the Toaster render it whenever you wish to check the
>results.

	That's not entirely true; the toaster uses three CRTs, one for the Amiga
output, one for the preview screen, and one for the Toaster output.  When using
Toaster Paint, it appears that a B&W image is generated by the Amiga, on the
Amiga screen, and this is displayed on the preview screen with colors overlaying
it.  You get you 16M colors, but not the ~1000x700 (or whatever) resolution.
You also don't seem to suffer from fringing or the computations necessary when 
working in HAM mode.  Really wierd.

>||---Brian Wright                    |     / /                         ||
>||---s36666wb@etsuacad.etsu.edu      | \ \/ /  Only Amiga              ||


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