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From: jdutka@wpi.wpi.edu (John Dutka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari TT graphics
Message-ID: <1970@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 20 Apr 89 17:01:14 GMT
References: <1413@sdcc15.ucsd.edu>
Reply-To: jdutka@wpi.wpi.edu (John Dutka)
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA. USA
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In article <1413@sdcc15.ucsd.edu> pa1132@sdcc15.UUCP () writes:
>resolution of the Atari TT will be 1280x960 mono, 640x400 16 colors,
>  320x200 256 colors.  Is this info accurate?  If this is true, then
>  how can the TT have a future, when the Amiga 500 , at about $700,
>  have about the same graphic power (as far as the color resolution
>  is concerned)?  Atari, you really make Atari users disappointing
>  over and over again.

Uhh, the new Amiga chipset allows a 1280x800 resolution with 2 bitplanes
(4 colors). And I can do 640x400 16 color (4 bitplanes) now, with my standard
500, along with the standard 320x200/400 4096 color HAM mode - the one thing
Atari has advanced in is a 68030 computer - how far along is it?


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