Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga:75299 comp.sys.amiga.tech:17254 comp.sys.amiga.hardware:5308 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mcnc!ncsuvx!news From: kdarling@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech,comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Retargetable graphics. Temporary Stop-gaps. Keywords: rtg,iff,24bit,video hardware Message-ID: <1990Dec28.083936.28032@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> Date: 28 Dec 90 08:39:36 GMT References: <12437@life.ai.mit.edu> <16612@cbmvax.commodore.com> <7307@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1990Dec19.175634.19203@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <7337@sugar.hackercorp.com> <661@cbmger.UUCP> <7361@sugar.hackercorp.com> Sender: news@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: NCSU Computing Center Lines: 18 On the subject of doing a stop-gap gfx library for those new video boards out now, two thoughts: 1. Perhaps CBM could/should help out by releasing some preliminary lib plans of their own? Can't hurt, might help in the long run. 2. About the 8-bit limitation in the current gfx library methodology, a reply that someone just posted on a similar topic on CIS struck me as an interesting slant on things: [taken without permission] "24 bit color is already there - the Amiga has had a 24 bit color standard in place for a long time. It's called "IFF". The OS is 8 bit, essentially, so OS operations are limited at the present time to 8 bits or less... apparently. :`) "I say apparently, because the OS can handle 3 8-bit rastports quite well, no one needs to tell it that those are all in the same display. :`)))" kevin