Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!mintaka!geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu!rjc From: rjc@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) Subject: Re: CDTV News Message-ID: <1991Jun30.223505.16971@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Sender: news@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu Organization: The Internet References: <1991Jun30.092929.22762@news.iastate.edu> <13636@uwm.edu> <1991Jun30.205817.4347@news.iastate.edu> Date: Sun, 30 Jun 91 22:35:05 GMT Lines: 63 In article <1991Jun30.205817.4347@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Barrett Marc N) writes: >In article <13636@uwm.edu> gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu writes: >>Okay. Now you can hold on. Who the hell ever said they were >>COMFORTABLE???? I'd love 8bit graphics. I don't want a 24bit graphic >>chipset. It's a bad idea. That's for graphic boards to handle, and >>for DIG to deal with, IMHO. What is needed now is an 8bit graphic >>chipset to compare directly with VGA. Argh. >> > One more thought... it would be very typical for Commodore to finally >adopt 8-bit color, right when 8-bit color is obsolete. Face it, 8-bit >color is fast becoming obsolete, and all companies are moving past 8-bit Marc, will you "make up your own mind"!. First you 8bit color, then you don't, then you want DIG, then you dont, you're beginning to become a whiner. J Townsend just posted a list of numerous 24bit color cards for the Amiga, what's you point? These cards are expensive. If you want to move 640x480x24 (almost one megabyte) of data around, you need a co-processor. If C= came out with a 1024x1024x24 display tommorow for $500 and it didn't have some kind of fast datamover onboard I would not buy it. >to higher color capabilities. CD-I is 24-bit, Apple has 24-bit video Kevin, correct me if I'm wrong, but CD-I has a 24bit palette, but it does not display 24bits per pixel. (well, it certainly doesn't on TV!) >cards for the MAC and one system with 15-bit color practically built-in >(on the LC, all the hardware for 15-bit color is there, except for the >memory). VGA is also moving past 8-bit color, as the new VEGA standard >supports 15-bit color. Sure, does the VEGA standard require a blitter onbiard? if it doesn't those sure will make nice still pictures. > Yesterday's technology, ad infinitum... Marc, what do you want from Commodore? Do you want a new Amiga model with an 8bit chipset that can animate? Do you want a 24bit chipset? Do you want the Amiga to be cheap or expensive? Do you want DIG with high end RISC boards? A few days ago you say "C= needs a new 8bit chipset for A500 machines." Now you're saying 24bit. You are not going to sell a machine with built in 24bits per pixel graphics for under $500. >>Socrates: "I drank WHAT????" >>LMFAP: "Next time you see me, it won't be me." >>Wubba: "A dream is nothing more than a wish dipped in chocolate and sprinkled >>with a little imagination." (From my poem, "A Dream") -Wubba > > >-- > -------------------------------------------------------- > / Marc Barrett -MB- | BITNET: taab5@isuvax.bitnet / >/ ISU COM S Student | Internet: barrett@iastate.edu / >------------------------------------------------------- -- / INET:rjc@gnu.ai.mit.edu * // The opinions expressed here do not \ | INET:r_cromwe@upr2.clu.net | \X/ in any way reflect the views of my self.| \ UUCP:uunet!tnc!m0023 * /