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From: blairjj@james.cs.unlv.edu (Jerome Blair)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: EXTRA_HALFBRITE (was V1.3 OS?)
Message-ID: <759@jimi.cs.unlv.edu>
Date: 11 Mar 88 20:01:39 GMT
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Reply-To: blairjj@jimi.cs.unlv.edu (Jerome Blair)
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Summary: What's the big deal?


I don't understand why everybody is making such a big deal over this
EXTRA_HALFBRITE issue. Why not make it optional? I can't think of many
applications where it would be absolutely required. So, why can't
programmers just put in another menu item to select halfbrite mode? Many
programs already have items to choose screen resolution, colors, etc.
anyway. It won't harm anything to try to use it if it isn't there, except
for possible confusion if things don't look quite right on the screen. With
a menu item to select/deselect it, people with the halfbrite-capable chips
can use it, and everybody else doesn't have to worry about it.

Summary: Stop complaining! It's just one minor little feature. I wish
most other computers had as much compatibility between different versions
as the Amiga does. You could have added the halfbrite menu item to your
programs in half the time it took you to type in all of your flames!

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Disclaimer: I'm not REALLY this obnoxious; I'm just in a bad mood
            this year. :-)
            I don't represent UNLV. I don't even represent myself!