Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!vsi1!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: 24 bit color boards Message-ID: <1990Dec9.202701.4260@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 9 Dec 90 20:27:01 GMT References: <6103@crash.cts.com> <1990Dec9.143953.3801@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 41 kdarling@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) writes: >[ Forwarded from Ben Williams @BlackBelt <76004.1771@compuserve.com> ]: >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 This is such utter garbage! Ham-E, according to Mr. Williams own writeup in the December issue of Faughorn, is a 368 by 480 maximum resolution system with _8_, _not_ _24_ bits per pixel. Doing "manipulations" in 24 bits is not "saving images in 24 bit". It might do wonderful things with those eight bits, including using them as indices into a 24 bit color lookup table, but it doesn't come close to the quality available from a 24 bit, 736 by 480 pixel frame buffer, and this kind of junk is exactly the misrepresentation I've been complaining about: it makes an excellent example of vendors doing their damnedest to mislead customers. His utterly viscious attacks on the competitive DCTV product in the same article shows a little too much hunger and too little ethics to suit me, and is confirmed postings here by the European customer who ordered HamE from Black Belt Systems from an ad stating that the system included a power supply, and receiving instead (for full price) a piece of paper saying the US power supply wouldn't work in Europe, so he was on his own to buy one for himself. Now there's a shop not 30 miles from me, in San Francisco, that specializes in selling 50Hz, 220 volt power supplies, so it isn't like they aren't available in the US. Most places I've been we call this "customer ripoff mail fraud". Think _real_ hard before buying a HamE system. Kent, the man from xanth.