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From: peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Magic Sac and Spectre
Keywords: Atari ST
Message-ID: <3294@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 16 Jan 89 14:03:38 GMT
References: <19627@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <3491@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX
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In article <3491@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>, ecs40hw036@minnie.ucdavis.edu (0000;0000048984;3200;250;205;ecs40hw) writes:
> The Atari ST is a very good graphics machine.  There are programs that make
> the ST's graphics comparable to the Amiga.

This is not possible. The Atari has a maximum possible resolution, using every
trick in the book, of something like 262 by 704 by 512 colors. The Amiga has
a maximum resolution, again using every trick in the book, of 525 by 704 by
4096 colors. You can't get a non-interlaced image with 3-bit DACs to equal
an interlaced image with 4-bit DACs.

Either will, of course, beat up on machines like the Apple-IIGS.
-- 
Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva  `-_-'  Hackercorp.
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