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From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari TT graphics
Message-ID: <6687@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 25 Apr 89 20:37:20 GMT
References: <1970@wpi.wpi.edu>
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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in article <1970@wpi.wpi.edu>, jdutka@wpi.wpi.edu (John Dutka) says:

> 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). 

Well, not quite.  The new chipset can do ~1280x~400 or ~640x~800 (eg,
overscan is still programmable, so you really can go beyond these nominal
numbers), in 2 bitplanes.  Both modes, however, are interlaced, and the
second one would need a pretty smart multisync type monitor, as it's
essentially an interlaced VGA-resolution mode.

The A2024 monitor (or the Moniterm Viking for the Amiga) will do 1008x800
at 60Hz or 1008x1024 at 50Hz, 2 bitplanes, but it's only B&W.  And it will
eat most of your A500's memory, and it ain't cheap.  

> | John A. Dutka  (jdutka)  |   .  .  . .____. .   | jdutka@wpi.bitnet        |
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