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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Amiga OS *IS* state of the art
Keywords: Amiga OS
Message-ID: <1071@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 5 Apr 91 07:57:30 GMT
References: <3058@tpki.toppoint.de> <3075@tpki.toppoint.de> <1044@cbmger.UUCP> <17980@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
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In article <17980@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> dlou@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Dennis Lou) writes:
>In article <1044@cbmger.UUCP> peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) writes:

Read it from my lips:

>> Ok, though HAMs are not best suited as background for action
>>games with BOBs, hmm. 

>Just thought I'd remind you that HAM mode programming is MUCH
>different that 256 color VGA programming.  The 'Hold' of "Hold And Modify"
>has 16 colors based on a 4-bit bitplane.  In 256 color VGA, you
>have a 1 byte per pixel mapping on a single plane.  I'd like to hear
>how you do 256 color animation on the Amiga like you can on the IBM
>(I don't think it's possible).

My cited remark precisely meant the difficulties you're mentioning,
just didn't want to elaborate.

BUT: You sure can do wonderful animations in HAM with actually *more*
than 256 colors. Every good Amiga animation package does this!
Boy, this is it what made the Amiga famous!!!
Only during games this could become a hard task, as I said above.

-- 
Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to  \\  Only my personal opinions... 
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