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From: disd@hubcap.UUCP (Gary R. Heffelfinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: EXTRA_HALFBRITE (was V1.3 OS?)
Message-ID: <1047@hubcap.UUCP>
Date: 1 Mar 88 23:04:23 GMT
References: <5183@swan.ulowell.edu>
Organization: Clemson University, Clemson, SC
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in article <5183@swan.ulowell.edu>, page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) says:
> 
> Can we clear this up once and for all?
> 
> ALL Amigas, except for a handful of early A1000's, have the
> EXTRA_HALFBRITE mode.  With over half a million Amigas in the world,
> you should consider it a standard feature.
> 
Speaking as one of those who has one of the early Amigas, I'd like to
make a plea to programmers to not assume that all Amigas have it.  I
recall running a program back in the early days that was a demo of EHB,
which would abort with a nasty message on my Ami.  Note that I have no
experience with using EHB, so I don't know for sure if a program will
abort when it doesn't find it, but I'd hate to buy the long-awaited
"Creeping Mutant Romuloids from Planet 10"  only to find that it shuts
down saying "Oop Ack! Upgrade your chip!"  So if a function call is
required to activate EHB, please pay attention to what it returns so
that you don't leave us old timers completely out in the cold.  Wizards,
please feel free to correct me if this is not the case.  I'm only a
weekend Ami programmer.


Now if C= would agree to make these chips available to us poor,
deprived, children, for something much less than the $60+ I seem to
remember having quoted at us, I'd be happy to purchase one.  Then I
won't give a damn whether or not you check for EHB.  The quoted price,
what ever it was, struck me as too much just for the benefit of having
more colors.  However, for $20 or $25, I wouldn't even bat an eye.

-Gary

> ..Bob
> -- 
> Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept.  page@swan.ulowell.edu  ulowell!page
> "I don't know such stuff.  I just do eyes."  -- from 'Blade Runner'
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