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From: pochron@rt9.cs.wisc.edu (David Pochron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: HAM-E
Summary: The "new resolution"
Keywords: HAM-E hires
Message-ID: <1991Mar8.183016.24084@daffy.cs.wisc.edu>
Date: 8 Mar 91 18:30:16 GMT
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In article <1991Mar6.172020.14129@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>The HAM-E mode allows 768x480 with 261,000 simultaneous colors
...
>less streaking. The image itself is actually only 384x480, but
>there is an anti-aliasing chip (which costs $120 extra) which
>computes an in-between color for each pixel.

So is this their "secret" method of getting hi-res output out of the HAM-E
device which has been rumored for months?

If so, then it is somewhat disappointing, since antialiasing, although giving
the appearance of higher resolution, does not improve the actual resolution and
makes the output fuzzy.  (Kinda defeats one of the reasons for hyping
RGB-output.)

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