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- From: ecsjols@klecsd.ericsson.se (Joakim Olsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: CyberGfx
- Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 09:21:47 GMT
- Organization: Ericsson Mobile Communications AB
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- On 18 Jan 1996 15:33:49 +0200, jaco@stack.urc.tue.nl (Jaco Schoonen) wrote:
-
- >: Although slow, we had EGS ECS modes ages ago. I know it's slightly different
- >: but if they were after making CyberGfx an RTG standard, supporting the
- >: existing harware would be a good idea.
- >
- >In the doc-files there's a section about this topic. They write that the
- >cybergraphics might obsolete as soon as it's merged with the
- >graphics.library.
- >There are just a few extra functions in the cybergraphics.library. Those are
- >only needed to use >8bit screens, since the amiga's graphics.library doesn't
- >support this. When the graphics.library will be upgraded to do full 24bit,
- >the cybergraphics.library is obsolete. It's only temporary.
- >
- >Functions for opening screens and windows, bitmaps, all the stuff is doen
- >through graphics.library. Cybergraphics patches the graphics.library to use
- >the hardware available.
- >ECS/AGA modes are used through graphics.library as well, so there's no point
- >in using cybergraphics.library on such machines.
-
- We can only hope that the graphics.library will support 24-bit modes very
- soon, and that new applications use this if available, today CyberGraphX
- does what is expected from it, but the lack of applications that actually
- takes advantage of this is too big. A few programs, like Real3d, ImageFx
- and Photogenics have support for it, also a few doom-clone games. Would be
- lovely to be able to run AWeb or some other browser in 16/24-bits instead
- of 256 colors.
-
- /Joakim Olsen (ecsjols@klecsd.ericsson.se)
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