Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!ukma!psuvm.bitnet!r38
From: R38@PSUVM.BITNET (aka Marc Rifkin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: PVA beats MACII
Message-ID: <37323R38@PSUVM>
Date: 26 Mar 88 00:30:55 GMT
Organization: The Pennsylvania State University - Computation Center
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At a recent MACshowoff, I found that the MAC II has 16 million colors,
and a resolution of 640x480.  BUT an unexpanded M2 can only display
16 colors at a time.  You have to buy a VIDEO CARD to give you 8 bit
planes for 256 at one time.
I feel that 320x400 with 4096 colors at one time looks at better.
And now the PVA graphics card for the A2000 gives 24 bitplanes (at, I
assume 640x400 or higher in overscan), so then the Amiga can display
ALL YES ALL 16 million colors at once.|_
What's the point?  With cards, the MAC II costs 2 times the Amiga.
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