Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!pawl!kudla From: kudla@pawl.rpi.edu (Robert J. Kudla) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Better Graphics Message-ID: Date: 12 Jan 90 20:41:26 GMT References: <343@vixen.uucp> Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY Lines: 56 In <343@vixen.uucp> joe@vixen.uucp (Joe Hitchens) writes: -> 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. I wonder why no one else has seen this..... It's a great box and I'm sure it'll get at least some use in the community, but it's certainly a kludge. -> 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? 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. Amen. They still have to do some nasty stuff to get more than 256 colors on the screen or get interlace (I don't even know if they can do the former) but 8-bit color is oh so nice. Our palette isn't the cream of the crop anymore either..... Note that most VGA and color Mac II applications rarely use more than 8 colors, which we can handle just fine and with a FlickerFixer we can have the sharp high-contrast MultiSync look as well. In fact, I don't understand why rather than a "productivity mode" the new Denise isn't simply implementing a FlickerFixer sort of thing. Myself, I'm betting that any new software which supports Productivity Mode will also support interlace, so I'm gonna bag Denise and get something akin to Flickerfixer. -> 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. In interlace, with nice colors, it's not bad. The titlebars etc are kinda lame, and I wish the resizer would get done over, but whatever..... -> 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. 8-bit video wouldn't be any more supported, though it might have an edge were CBM to release such a card. -> (Ok, go ahead, torch me. :-)) Someone's bound to get defensive, but aside from the usual boring "VGA is beating us" argument, you've made some good points. -- Robert Jude Kudla "Famous? I'm not famous. People come up to me after a show and say 'Hey, Steve!'" -Jon Anderson