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From: sysop@pro-generic.cts.com (Matthew Montano)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: //gs screen resolutions...
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Date: 6 Feb 90 17:30:08 GMT
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  I constantly have this problem with people in the store at which I work.
They brag about how the Amiga has all these 640*400 resolutions with 256
colors and how awesome the games would be. It takes easily an hour to explain
how such a high resolution with so many colors is virtually impossible to
animate at any speed which is worthwhile. The same thing occurs with IBM
owners and their fabled VGA resolution. Most games for the IBM use what is
comparable to an EGA resolution, and then they only animate about half the
screen or less! Most (if not all) Amiga games are in a 320*200 mode in 16
colors. Some of the newer ones are 640*4X0 resolution still in 16 colors, and
they sometimes over power the hardware. Do you know how much 640*400*16 takes
up in memory? How about 256 colors per pixel... forget it.

  The higher resolution 640*400 (or whatever) is perfectly suited for desktop
applications. Anything that uses the desktop would be suited for such a
resolution. A HyperCard like application would love such a resolution..

  Games in that higher resolution ESPECIALLY with more than 4 colors would be
really pushing the machine (any machine).. think AWGS like programs, hypercard
like applications.. but never games.


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