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From: barrett@iastate.edu (Barrett Marc N)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: CDTV News
Message-ID: <1991Jun30.233052.6568@news.iastate.edu>
Date: 30 Jun 91 23:30:52 GMT
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In article <13647@uwm.edu> gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu writes:
>From article <1991Jun30.205817.4347@news.iastate.edu>, by barrett@iastate.edu (Barrett Marc N):
>
>My, my, how shallow of you.  Firstly, maybe 8-bit color is getting a
>little old, but n-buffered 8 bit isn't, and neither would 15-bit ham
>anims.  The difference with the mac is that it's DIGged up already, so
>it doesn't matter what kind of graphics you use.  The more, the
>better.  And there are applications that support 24bit dig on the mac.
>That's it.  One evolutionary step away.  And frankly, the Mac doesn't
>have animation in 24-bit, or even a good 8-bit card, built onto any of
>their macs.  You're better of 3rd party.

   That is a pack of lies straight out of hell.  For one thing, the 
MAC IIci, IIsi, and LC all have VERY nice 8-bit graphic cards built-in.
I don't see how you can say that the cards aren't any good, as the graphics
are VERY sharp and vibrant on the Apple color monitors.  Also, Apple
currently produces the 8/24GC graphics card which does do impressive
animations in full 24-bit color on a 640x480 non-interlaced display.

>Hell, CD-I gets it's
>15 bit graphics mode in a way similar to DCTV.

   Similar, but better.  First, CD-I had DYUV first.  Secondly, on the
CD-I machines, DYUV can be combined with other graphics modes, to produce
striking effects.  I think Mr. Darling once mentioned something about how
ieasy it would be to produce a 256,000-color background with a 32,000-
color animation overlaid, along with transparency effects to boot.  This
is not possible with DCTV, or any of the other Amiga third-party products
for that matter.  

>
>Greg
>-- 
>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


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