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- From: "Olaf Barthel" <olsen@sourcery.han.de>
- Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 13:55:47 +0100
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- Subject: Re: Does OCS support 64 color EHB mode?
- Message-ID: <13213466@sourcery.han.de>
-
- In Article <wulfraedDL709u.741@netcom.com>, Dennis Lee Bieber <wulfraed@kd6mog.netcom.com> wrote:
- >
- > In article <13213452@sourcery.han.de> "Olaf Barthel" <olsen@sourcery.han.de> writes:
- > >
- > > The official Commodore statement on this topic was that only early developer
- > > models which were brought into circulation after the `final' A1000 was in
- > > production did not support EHB. In how far this may be true I do not know. In
- >
- > If true, there were an awful lot of "development models" out there --
- > I bought my A-1000 NEW in March (and had to go back to get the missing 1.1 OS
- > package that was supposed to be free). That was the same month EHB was
- > announced to the public.
-
- And to add to that, the first AmigaLibDisk holds a demonstration program
- which shows Extra-Half-Brite mode in action (dated 24-Dec-85).
-
- > I have difficulty believing that CBM was still shipping "development"
- > models 5 months after release.
-
- CBM always moved in strange and truly mysterious ways. Might be that they
- wouldn't want to waste all those perfectly good Denise chips...
-
- > It /is/ possible that no A-1000's ever shipped with EHB, but EHB
- > should have been in all A-500/A-2000 series machines. I think EHB was not
- > considered an ECS mode -- just a late change in the OCS chip set...
-
- I just checked my A1000 and found that it would support EHB. I don't know
- that much about A1000s (and my A1000 in particular, which I bought second-hand
- around Christmas two years ago), but since it's a PAL model I would guess that
- it was produced rather late.
-
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