Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!vsi1!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: 24 bit color boards Keywords: 24bit, color Message-ID: <1990Nov28.230731.29008@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 28 Nov 90 23:07:31 GMT References: <10634@ur-cc.UUCP> Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 38 gest_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Gavin Stark) writes: > Ok... In the newest Amiga World (Dec 1990, which is a very nice > issue,, almost makes me want to resubscribe) there are two relatively > low priced 24bit color boards advertised: DCTV by Digital Creations > which can be found at an incredible price of $399 from Creative > Computers, and the apperantly unreleased Colorburst board from > M.A.S.T. advertised by them for $495. > Has anyone had any experience with either of these boards? A 24 bit > board for $399 is quite a temptation, and sounds a bit too good to be > true. Sigh. As indeed it is. These manufacturers are abusing standard terminology to lure in the gullible. I have no personal experience with either, but from previous postings about these products, they are not giving you three byte deep pixels, but merely three byte wide color output, from a color look up table driven by one byte deep pixels; roughly the same as the IBM-PC VGA display technology -- sixteen million-odd color _choices_, but only 256 colors at once. No big deal; save your money for the real thing. My personal feeling is that "24bit color" is sufficiently standard technology for a 24 bit deep frame buffer that a successful suit could be brought against these folks for false advertising and mail fraud, if anyone making a true 24 bit deep frame buffer wanted to bother. Then again, check them out, I could have misunderstood what I read; but check out anything that seems too good to be true; it usually is. Count the folks here who have been burned dealing with Montgomery Grant. /// It's Amiga /// for me: why Kent, the man from xanth. \\\/// settle for \XX/ anything less? -- Convener, ongoing comp.sys.amiga grand reorganization.