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From: klm@munsell.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Wishlist for A3000
Message-ID: <1364@squeaker.munsell.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Nov-87 11:25:41 EST
Article-I.D.: squeaker.1364
Posted: Thu Nov 12 11:25:41 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 14-Nov-87 16:48:49 EST
References: <74@mothra> <33314@sunnny.side.up> <2213@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Reply-To: klm@squeaker.UUCP (Kevin [Being Weird Isn't Enough] McBride)
Organization: Eikonix Corp., Bedford, MA
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Summary: Let's be reasonable.  I'm not going to buy a $10K Amiga.

In article <2213@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>
>Or a 25 mhz '020...

YEAH YEAH!!  (slobber slobber drool drool)

>
>Mandatory. Hard disks arn't a luxury any more.

Got that right.  Unfortunately a lot of us who would *love* to drive a
Porsche are, through financial necessity, stuck with a Hyundai.

Necessary equipment.  Luxury prices. (whimper)

>
>Not bad. But I'd like to see other configurations, like 16 Meg
>simultaneous colors (optional) and higher resolutions available
>as 'other' video modes.

Higher res, yes!  16 meg colors?  WHY??!!  Your eye can't see that many!
Granted that for doing real image processing you need that precision
internally (8 bits each of R,G, and B; or uvL or what have you), but for
display purposes you only need between 2K and 4K colors to get excellent
results on a HIGH RES monitor (at least 1K x 1K.)  Any more colors than that
and you go into overkill mode, which makes your hardware very expensive.
Yes, there are 24 bit frame buffers out there.  Check out the price tag on
one sometime.  Quite a bit more than you paid for your Amiga.

IMHO, you can get just as good display quality with 12 bits out, IF you know
what you are doing.  (i.e., you need to do a little bit more than just linear
compression through a hardware LUT.)  We do something similar to that on the
display section of our electronic publishing system.  We use full color
imagery.  Our display is less than 24 bits and it looks very very good.

Of course, having your monitor calibrated to a reference standard, and having
your software calibrated to your monitor helps too. :-)

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