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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: 10 Dec 90 03:17:22 GMT
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| <xanthian@Zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
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| > Ben Williams @BlackBelt <76004.1771@compuserve.com> writes:
| >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".

Kent!  Knock-knock. Anyone home? :-) Read his message again.  He's in
_agreement_ with you.  He even said that manipulating data in 24 bits
before display still means "I don't think that makes the HAM-E 24 bit".

| [...] 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.

Again, he's agreeing.  I think you're letting your good intentions blind
you.  You're correct. You're right.  We all _agree_.  :-)

| 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,

Huh?  This is all that he calmly wrote (readers decide for themselves):

> 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.

And as for the European customer with the power supply, I believe that
Black Belt is attempting to correct the situation.  In the first
enthusiasm of product shipments, this kind of thing often occurs.
Companies have to be informed of complaints first tho, before they can
take corrective action.  Seems to their credit that they're trying.

| Most places I've been we call this "customer ripoff mail fraud".

And most places would call your messages a "vendetta" ;-).  But I don't
think they are.  I think you're just on a roll about the definition of
"24-bit color", and more power to you!  best - kevin (for myself).

PS: As one of the instrumental parties creating the several new OS-9/68K
machines, I find it amusing that Amigans love so much to rip into their
third party suppliers.  Y'all make us glad we chose a different route.
No need for NeXT people to destroy you... you're doing it to yourselves.

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