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From: wheels@mks.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Spectrum 512 allready outdone?
Message-ID: <317@mks.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Nov-87 09:23:25 EST
Article-I.D.: mks.317
Posted: Wed Nov 18 09:23:25 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 21-Nov-87 02:36:19 EST
References: <8711171046.AA09562@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont.
Lines: 25
Summary: Can they really do that?

In article <8711171046.AA09562@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, 
> PRINS@HLERUL5.BITNET (R. Prins - Network Mgr. [DEC Sites] RU Leiden) writes:
> I just saw an ad for a new drawing program, called Quantum Paintbox by
> Eidersoft. It makes it possible for the ST to display 4096 colours
> simultanously.
> How they do it? I do'nt have the slightest idea.
>
>                                                 Ryko Prins

Yes, how do they do that? I'm quite sure the ST can really only display
512 colours, maximum, as that is directly related to the number of
bits from the shifter feeding the D/A converters which feed the RGB
outputs. (3 bits for each colour = 8 levels of each colour. 8 x 8 x 8
gives 512 colours. Period.) I wonder if this program, and another I saw
with similar claims, are trying to claim that a region of the screen
with mixed pixel colours is really a new colour. If so, Spectrum 512
could make similar claims. Any program that can use all 512 colours
in a single picture could claim that, right? But, I'd rather they
didn't. Let's just talk about the number of colours any one pixel
can be, and keep these claims reasonable.
-- 
     Gerry Wheeler                           Phone: (519)884-2251
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