Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!iconsys!caeco!vixen!joe
From: joe@vixen.uucp (Joe Hitchens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Better Graphics
Keywords: graphics display
Message-ID: <343@vixen.uucp>
Date: 11 Jan 90 03:46:29 GMT
Organization: Sleepless Software
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All this talk about the "Black Belt Video" device and interpereting
the signals differently to get better results just sounds like the biggest
kludge ever.

The 2000's have a video slot right?  Why can't someone just make
a new video board that does 256 color byte-per-pixel "VGA-like" graphics
that plugs into the slot?  If a new version of the OS is coming out
soon, isn't the Intuition library all that would need to be changed
software wise?  The graphics library already supports 8 bitplanes, right?

Amiga's biggest problem right now is that it is falling behind in
display quality.  The new VGA cards and the MacII display are getting
way out in front.
Non-Amiga people I have talked to always say that the thing that turned
them away from the Amiga was the display looked real cheesy-toylike-C64
like.  And it does.  The standard WorkBench display is just not very
nice by today's standards.  I go down to work and see my co-workers with
their NEC multisync VGA machines and they have these super sharp, crisp,
high contrast, highly colorful displays, and it makes me sick.

I make a living with my Amiga, so I need display modes that are supported
by the system.  I can't use something that is just a novelty mode that
can't be used easily by normal productivity software.
How am I going to draw a picture in DPaint with this Black Belt thing?
I can't, unless a new version comes out that supports the kludge.
And "supporting a kludge" seems kind of dumb to me.

j.h.

(Ok, go ahead, torch me. :-))

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