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From: erd@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Ethan R. Dicks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: EXTRA_HALFBRITE (was V1.3 OS?)
Message-ID: <7710@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 4 Mar 88 06:35:28 GMT
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In article <5183@swan.ulowell.edu> page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) writes:
>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.
>
>..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'

Unfortunately, I have one such machine.  If extra_halfbrite is to be considered
a standard feature, then Commodore should offer to upgrade (for a reasonable
price) all older machines to the newer chips.  At Earthrise Micro Systems, they
want over $70 for parts alone to swap the chip.  They did tell me that if I
bought a Genlock, that they would replace both Agnus and Denise (or was it
Paula?) because there is some incompatibility with Genlock and older revisions
of the chip.  I don't need a Genlock, but I would like to have extra_halfbrite
mode for a reasonable price.

-ethan

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