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From: kdarling@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 24 bit color boards
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Date: 9 Dec 90 14:39:53 GMT
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[ Forwarded from Ben Williams @BlackBelt <76004.1771@compuserve.com> ]:

[ He notes that the tried to reply to Bob at ProGraphics BBS, but
  that he was told the mail never showed up. - kev]

Bob - I was steamed when I read your message. Sorry I got so personal.

I'll attempt to stay to the technical points here.

The HAM-E will animate in DPaint, in register mode. Turn on the 
grid, set it to "2" horizontally, and that ensures that the brush 
will maintain the registration required to operate properly under 
DPaints manipulations. So, it does work.

Next, neither the toaster nor DCTV are 24 bit _output_. What you see
is the issue here, not what is going on where you can't see. 
The HAM-E also represents it's data in 24 bits internally; 
output images in the HAM-E mode are mixtures of 18 and 24 bit data. 
I don't think that makes the HAM-E 24 bit; although it does give it
the ability to have a better image than any composite signal.

I've had the opportunity to sit next to a Toaster for 3 days, running
lightwave, just generally mucking about with it. Output images
occasionally approached the HAM-E's quality, but ONLY when they were
lightly colored - the monochrome rez of the Toaster is reasonably high.

DCTV does not modulate the signal with 24 bits of data. So, even 
taking into account the damage done by NTSC encoding, it never 
_was_ 24 bits. I don't know if this applies to the Toaster.

If saving images in 24 bit was the point upon which they all turned, 
as your message seems to imply, then the HAM-E would be a 24 
bit system, because we do all our manipulations in 24 bits.

I am NOT saying this is so; I'm just putting it this way to show 
you that your conclusion isn't clearly indicated. - Ben

Email replies should go to Ben Williams at <76004.1771@compuserve.com>