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From: mls@whutt.UUCP (SIEMON)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: How to get video signal from MacII?
Message-ID: <3100@whutt.UUCP>
Date: 22 Apr 88 18:18:35 GMT
References: <1022@luth.luth.se+ <5683@well.UUCP> <4366@husc6.harvard.edu> <167@anselm.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Lines: 30
Keywords: video, macII, VHS
Summary: excuse me?

This doesn't really belong in comp.graphics; I'm following up to ...amiga only;
(flames to comp.sys.mac :-))

In article <167@anselm.UUCP+, pfarrell@anselm.UUCP (Gladiator Supreme.) writes:
+ 
+ To all of the Amiga fans out there, More power to you! The Mac II is a
+ waste of money, I mean it is not a bad computer, but the amiga is
+ better. 
+ Has any body heard if the new graphics chip is out for the Amiga?
+ It supposedly has 1024x1024 resolution with one million colors.
+ Now one million colors is excessive, but that is Commodores way of
+ saying, HA! I'm better than you are. And if your going to get an Amiga,
+ get the model 2000, the 500 and 1000 are good, but limited in
+ comparison.

One million?  My Mac II has a pallette of 16 Meg. colors, and it is precisely
because the Amiga's pallette was 4096 that I didn't get it, though I have
recommended Amigas to friends, especially budget-constrained friends (and I
think the Amiga is a wonderfully "cost effective" machine.)  It HURT not to
buy an Amiga over the last year and a half; but I had to save for my MAC :-) 
In my judgment, if you want color for anything except engineering schematics
and cartoons, even the MAC is only just barely adequate, and a 1 Meg. color
pallette just doesn't make it.

More power to Amiga owners and developers; I wish them well.

-- 
Michael L. Siemon
contracted to AT&T Bell Laboratories
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