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Subject: Re: Stellar 7 re-release
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Date: 9 Dec 90 21:24:20 GMT
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>The Apple IIgs's CGA-level graphics against VGA...HAHAHAHAHA (no match)

CGA level?????  In 320 mode in CGA, you have FOUR colors!  In 320 mode on the
GS, you can have up to THREE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED colors!  Hardly a comparison.
Or, a little more practical... TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY SIX colors!  Hardly a
comparison.  Or, at the lowest end, SIXTEEN colors (4 times the CGA limit).
Hardly a comparison.  Not only does the GS have 4 times as many colors as CGA,
but those 16 colors can be chosen from a pallette of FOUR THOUSAND NINETY SIX
colors.  Hardly a comparison to CGA.  CGA has FOUR pallettes of FOUR colors
each.  That's it.  Hardly a comparison.

I'd say the closest graphics mode on the IBM that the GS's graphics can be
compared to is VGA.  And believe me when I say this.  I work EXTENSIVELY with
CGA, EGA, VGA, and the GS's graphics every day.

>There are no two ways about it...The Apple IIgs hardware must be upgraded.

It's certainly long overdue for routine improvements.

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  Michael J. Quinn
  University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
  BITNET--   mquinn@utcvm
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