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- From: peterk@combo.ganesha.com (Dr. Peter Kittel)
- Subject: Re: Using up all Chip RAM.
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Reply-To: peterk@combo.ganesha.com
- References: <4ikia0$bp3@tkhut.sojourn.com> <4ikrbv$4ee@toad.stack.urc.tue.nl> <1472.6655T1427T1010@iceonline.com> <4j49ko$j68@tkhut.sojourn.com>
- Message-ID: <peterk.0m80@combo.ganesha.com>
- Date: 30 Mar 96 15:02:45 MEZ
- Organization: Private Site
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- In article <4j49ko$j68@tkhut.sojourn.com> mharrell@sojourn1.sojourn.com (Matt Harrell) writes:
- >John Torset (johnt4@iceonline.com) wrote:
- >
- >: Why use a 7-bitplane Workbench. Get MagicWB2.0 and do nicely with 3- or 4-
- >: bitplanes depending on if you want to use MagicCopper or not. It looks
- >: realy nice. ;) You will save about 350 to 550 Kb of Chipram depending on your
- >: choice. (Compared to 1.3 Mb)
- >
- >Yes, but then any images displayed on the Workbench screen (like in
- >Mosaic) look like shit.
-
- But why do you insist that AMosaic uses the WB screen? Leave WB at 2 to 4
- bitplanes and open an own one for AMosaic with 7 or 8 bitplanes. This is
- exactly the advantage of the Amiga screen concept to give every application
- the optimized (color or pixel) resolution. Just use it. MUI allows this.
-
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