Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!UCF1VM.BITNET!WILLIAMS From: WILLIAMS@UCF1VM.BITNET (Erik Williams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: ST Resolution vs. Amiga Resolution Message-ID: <8901261651.AA12611@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 26 Jan 89 16:28:28 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 32 Peter da Silva writes: >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. >...texbell!sugar!peter, or peter@sugar.uu.net 'U` Sorry Peter, but my ST would love to have a talk with you. The ST's maximum resolution in color is 640x320 with a maximum color pallette of 4096 colors in Medium res and 16 million colors in low resolution (mind you, you have to do some major tweaking with TOS to do this). High resolution monochrome is 640x480, and is paper white with black. However, any one of these resolutions can scroll (with the famous LineA command) up to 32,767x32,767 pixels in ANY resolution using a program called BIGSCRN.PRG (it is on many of the BBSs here in Orlando, FL). However, to do 32kx32k, you must have about six megs in the machine. However, it is nice being able to use Desktop Publisher ST in 1280x960, and sometimes 1500x1500 resolution! Show me an Amiga that can do that (when they are not in Guru Meditations, of course!!! ). Erik Williams Electrical Engineering University of Central Florida (WILLIAMS@UCF1VM.bitnet) Orlando, Florida P.S. I believe Quantum Paint is the program that has broken the 4k colors limitation and can make 16 million in low resolution.