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- From: Mike@Redrobe.demon.co.uk (Mike)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: What NEW Amigas SHOULD have
- Date: 31 Jan 96 13:40:11 +0000
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- Hi, Mathew Hendry , on 29-Jan-96 16:37:58 you scribbled....
- >This has to be a spam.
-
- >StarBlazer (starblaz@postoffice.ptd.net) wrote:
- >: 32-bit sound, why settle for 16 bit, that way we'd never have to upgrade
- >: (at least unless our human ears suddenly get more sensitive)
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- >Above 16 bit human ears can't detect the difference. That is unlikely to
- >change, unless some bizarre evolutionary selection pressure appears that
- >kills off people with insensitive ears.
-
- True...but 32bit sells better witness the AWE32 sales... that is 16bit
- sound,but with 32 vioces...
-
- >: 48-bit palette. More colors than we can probably see, and 65536 shades of
- >: everything.
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- >Similarly, human eyes can't detect the difference above 24 bit (8 bits per
- >gun). I doubt many people could even tell the difference between a 21 bit
- >picture and a 24 bit one.
-
- I can tell the difference between 24bit and 32bit pix....
-
- 24bit colour on a computer is linear...your eye sensitivity isn't linear.
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- >: 64-bit bus would be nice too.
-
- >Yes, but since you're looking for overkill, make that 1024 bit. Might clutter
- >up the motherboard, though.
-
- >: We could use more than 8 sprites too.
- >: (builtin scaling and rotation would go good with that)
- scaling and rotation? go for 3d texturemapping too , mind you just give us a
- PCI bus and those cards are already here (3dBlaster etc)
-
- >Of very limited use, and hence a wasted effort.
- the same was said about HAM at the design stage...
-
- >-- Mat.
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- Mike
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