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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
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Subject: Re: Intuition and color (was Re: ColorBurst NTSC @ LA VideoExpo)
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Date: 28 May 91 01:49:34 GMT
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In article <1991May28.003206.21596@leland.Stanford.EDU> bard@jessica.stanford.edu (David Hopper) writes:
>In article <1991May27.221214.19100@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>>
>>	I hate to put this so bluntly, but without externally
>>hardware, Intuition can't DO VGA graphics. Period. Try getting
>>256 simultaneous colors without using HAM, which cannot be used
>>for the WB screen anyway.
>
>Well, whatever.  I hate to be blunt with YOU, Ethan, but you should know
>better.  I'm running a 4096-color workbench as we speak.  Now, it's only
>sixty columns, but it's there, and it's rather pretty, thankyouverymuch.
>

	There is a PD program (Jazzbench is it?) that does it. I
should've prefaced it with Commodore-supported way of making WB
into HAM. There are PD hacks that do do it. I've heard mixed
things about stability, but I admit that I've never used them
myself and since you do use it I guess it can't be all that bad.
8-)

	Realistically, though, to use more than 16 colors in
standard HAM mode without serious fringing requires too many
computations to be, IMHO, a realistic alternative. Especially
since we are talking about a bridgeboard. IBMs don't expect to
have to deal with this, they'll just be writing out bytes.
Somewhere that'll have to be intercepted and converted. HW: not
cheap. SW: slow.
	I'm not saying it's impossible. DigiPaint was considered
impossible before its like was done. I'm just very doubtful.

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