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From: king@dciem.UUCP (Stephen King)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga UNIX(R) *rumor* ...
Message-ID: <2491@dciem.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 20-Oct-87 08:51:05 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 20 08:51:05 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 21-Oct-87 04:02:26 EDT
References: <1801@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu> <520@esunix.UUCP> <162@dalcsug.UUCP>
Reply-To: king@dciem.UUCP (Stephen King)
Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada
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Summary: 

In article <162@dalcsug.UUCP> peter@dalcsug.UUCP (Peter Philip) writes:
>I agree totally, home users do not need that kind of resolution, it would
>be nice, but the present pixel resolution is fine, however we could ALL
>use MORE COLORS which I hope would be offered by new graphics boards.  This
>would improve graphics drastically without having to buy a new monitor.
	Then you would have non-coprocessor graphics memory. Goodbye sprites,
bobs, animation & hardware drawing functions.

>a 1K x 1K graphics board -- the applications are endless and the price
>would be great!  Just one request to anyone working on such a board,
>make it NTSC compatible!!  I would definitely buy the above configuration
	How would you squeeze 1024 lines into a ~480 line screen? Scan
convertors which do this sort of thing for high-end workstations cost many
kilobucks. Probably as much as a 1024 line monitor. There is no easy way
to make 1024x1024 resolution NTSC compatible. NONE. ZILCH. Furthermore,
add-on graphics hardware will require custom drivers. We run the risk of
falling into an IBM like CGA, PGA, EGA chasm which the Amiga avoids because
ALL Amigas have the same graphics hardware (this is one reason I bought an
Amiga).	
	You can, of course, put a bridge card in an A2000 and use a PC
graphics card with the high resolution, and run PC software for it. Then
you have the best of both worlds, but you will have to pay for it! ...sjk
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