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From: murphy@gibbs.physics.purdue.edu (William J. Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: 24 bit color for the Amiga
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Date: 17 May 91 14:19:10 GMT
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The other night, I was reading the latest Amiga Whirled while waiting for my
wife to purchase some prescription drugs.  There is a review in this issue
of 24 bit color  for the Amiga.  In light of the discussions recently about
the availability of 24-bit color for sub $500, I am wondering 2 things:
1)   Given the number of 24 bit boards, (DCTV, HAM-E, Firecracker...) how
    many of them are able to  be used with the entire line of Amiga
    software.  A sub question would be how many are useable with the entire
    line of Amiga graphics production software? e.g. Turbo Silver, SA 3D,
    DPaint III, Prodraw 2.0 ....

2)   There was some discussion in the AW review of the quality of the various
    boards, how does the quality of the output correlate with the price?
    I would have to assume that those who own such beasties are going to 
    desire to produce video or some form of hardcopy image to  share with
    the rest of the world.

A side light:  There was some mention of needing an RGB Encoder for some of
the boards which produced composite-only?  What do these cost?

Bill Murphy
murphy@physics.purdue.edu

West Lafayette, IN:  Where progress takes a back seat to tradition.