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- From: mann@ipacific.net.au (Angus Mann)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Hombre history - RISC selection
- Date: 2 Jan 1996 13:31:15 GMT
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- >john.hendrikx@grafix.xs4all.nl (John Hendrikx) writes:
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- >>I don't think so. Every pixel in a 16-bit screen has the choice of 65536
- >>different possible shades, while a pixel in a HAM8 picture can only chose
- >>from
- >>256 different colors. 16-bit will look better most of the time, especially
- >>when you consider that dithering is much more effective for 16-bit screens
- >>than it can be for HAM screens.
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- >That's garbage. While each pixel in HAM8 just has 256 possible shades
- >you can reach more colors than a 16bit screen.
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- <laugh> Pray tell, how??
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- >And dithering is as effective with HAM as with other displays. In fact,
- >HAM is some kind of automatic dithering.
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- Dithering with HAM is FAR less effective than true-colour displays, due to
- fringing. And of course HAM is *NEVER* as clear...
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- And HAM is some kind of automatic dithering? Crap. It's just a hardware hack in
- the chips that forces 4096 colours out of HAM6, and 65536 from HAM8...
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- >--
- > Michael van Elst
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- >Internet: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de
- > "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."
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