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From: dlleigh@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Darren L. Leigh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The Future of Amiga Video
Message-ID: <1692@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 27-Oct-87 22:03:41 EST
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Posted: Tue Oct 27 22:03:41 1987
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Summary: why divisible by 3?  There's no need.

In article <2987@xanth.UUCP> kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:

>Please, please, PLEASE, not EIGHT bits per pixel, OK?  Six is good,
>nine is great(!), but eight means that all my software to divide up
>the color palatte nicely is a mess.  Can't we give each gun the same
>number of bits of resolution?

Well, Kent, if six bits per pixel will satisfy you, then there should
be no problem with eight.  You can use the six for graphics and the
two left-overs for overlay planes.  You just need a little
self-control to keep from using all those extra colors. :-)

Personally, my dream machine would be 32 bits/pixel.  That's 24 bits
mapped directly to the guns for super-realistic pictures and eight
bits worth of overlay attached to a 24 bit wide color table.

Then all I want is a super-computer to do the calculations and a
single-frame video recorder . . .   

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