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From: don@chopin.udel.edu (Donald R Lloyd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: (Video) Hardware Idiots ?
Message-ID: <17259@chopin.udel.edu>
Date: 8 Jun 91 16:49:13 GMT
References: <1991Jun4.210724.1246@newserve.cc.binghamton.edu> <1991Jun7.091455.10355@rulway.LeidenUniv.nl> <1991Jun8.085839.3556@news.iastate.edu>
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In article <1991Jun8.085839.3556@news.iastate.edu> taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu writes:
>In article <1991Jun7.091455.10355@rulway.LeidenUniv.nl>, breemen@rulcvx.LeidenUniv.nl (E. van Breemen) writes:
>>How compatible are those boards? Can I transfer all my display to such
>>cards or am I limited to one program (like Caligari?) For example I
>>would like to run the WB on such a card. I don't think that will be
>>possible under 1.3. But under 2.0???
>
>   Unfortunately, you will have to wait a while (probably a very LONG while)
>for that.  This is NOT supported in AmigaDOS 2.0, and will not be supported
>on the Amiga for several years.  
>

	 So, Marc, when did CBM send you their official timetable?  Or is it the
other way around, with you telling _them_ exactly what's going on?  It must
also be nice to have every present and future 3rd party in the Amiga market
reporting to you to let you know what they're working in so that you'll be able
to make such statements as the above based on real, factual knowledge.


>   Right now, you don't have any choices at all as to what kind of display
>you use for your Workbench.  You either put up with the idiosyncracies of
>the Amiga's inadequate chipset, or get another system.  It's as simple as
>that.
>

     I have a choice between 6 NTSC display modes, as well as PAL resolutions.
For my needs, 640x400 _is_ adequate, for now.  I have no need for a 16 million
color workbench.  I wouldn't _mind_ having these things available, but just
because they're not doesn't make the Amiga's chipset inadequate.
	 The Amiga's inadequate chipset is what makes it the biggest name in the
video and multimedia markets.
     Or you get a 2024 or Moniterm monitor if you want a large greyscale
display.



	 [Note follow-up line.  Maybe we can get MB to spend so much time
defending himself in c.s.a.advocacy that he won't have time to haunt us
in the serious groups :-) ]

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