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From: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: And the winner is...
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Date: Wed, 31-Dec-69 18:59:59 EDT
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Posted: Wed Dec 31 18:59:59 1969
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Reply-To: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura)
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Keywords: Stop complaining and give unused equipment a good home.
Summary: Spectrum 512


     A lot has been said about the superiority of the Amiga graphics,
and it's quite true, but just lately I've been seeing demonstrations of
Spectrum 512 for the Atari-ST.  The surprise is that a Spectrum 512 file
is displayed with 512 colors at once on almost any Atari ST (some very
early machines need a slight chip update) at 320 * 200 pixels.  It's
quite spectacular.  It's still not as good as an Amiga, because you
can't have a background task (something like 80% of the processor time
is eaten by the display routine which uses interrupts to display the
various colors), so there's no way you're going to use this for fast
animated graphics like the Juggler, but it's interesting that it could
produce still pictures of this nature.

Cheers! -- Jim O.
-- 
Jim Omura, 2A King George's Drive, Toronto, (416) 652-3880
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