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From: blgardne@javelin.es.com@bambam.UUCP (Blaine Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Summary: A1000 vs A500
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Date: 7 Oct 90 16:49:48 GMT
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peck@ral.rpi.edu (Joseph Peck) writes:

>In article <1990Oct04.004347.18588@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> zippy@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Patrick Tufts) writes:
>>Disadvantages of A1000
>>	o can't display HalfBrite mode (but this isn't used
>>	  except in the odd paint program)

>   Bzzzzt!  Mine does.  Or at least in DPaint in 64 color mode
>  it looks like 32 colors and 32 half tones.....  I thought that
>  it was only the very early A1000's that couldn't.  I got mine 
>  in May '86.

I also got my A1000 in May '86, and it did not support Extra Half Brite.
The numbers I've heard say about 1/3 to 1/2 of the A1000's sold did not
have EHB. And the time of purchase seems to have little to do with the
EHB Denise being present.

Of course on mine, I sprung for the newer (Rev 6) Denise with EHB. It
cost me about $60, and was the worst money I ever spent (Well, except
for Diga!, but that belongs in the "worst terminal program ever"
competition. (Why is it that programs with a "!" in the name are
completely worthless?)) because the only programs that used EHB were two
tests for the EHB feature. By the time programs supporting EHB came out,
I'd bought an A2000.

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