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- From: etxzayl@cate1.ericsson.se (Johan Zeylon IN/SA/BIB)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: 1996 Amiga Home Computer?
- Date: 5 Jan 1996 14:32:06 GMT
- Organization: Ericsson Telecom AB
- Message-ID: <4cjcp6$imr@erinews.ericsson.se>
- References: <4cgtlp$g4m@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
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- In article g4m@coranto.ucs.mun.ca, bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Byron Montgomerie) writes:
- >Angus Mann (mann@ipacific.net.au) wrote:
- >
- >: But even then, the Amiga will (once again) be playing catch-up to the Macs and
- >: PeeCees...just as it did with AGA compared to the newer colour Macs and SVGA
- >: when the A4000 and A1200 came out...
- >
- >I do feel however that there is a certain practical minimum and that the ever
- >increasing specs for graphics are increasing by lesser amounts than in the past.
- >There is a (new) type of display being developed that uses rotating micro
- >mirrors for instance that only allows 256 levels for each rgb value but allows
- >much larger resolutions (in theory). Any display greater than 24 bit would be
- >wasted on such a thing. The planned addition of a 24 bit mode to AGA for the
- >PPC amigas would make the machine a nice practical minimum that would probably
- >be able to last as long as the ecs machines did without further development.
- >This assuming that the AGA enhancements involve a speed increase as well.
- >There is also the fact that the PPC amigas will have a PCI slot for expanded
- >graphics anyway, but 24 bit for the low end without a PCI wouldn't be all that
- >bad assuming a marketable price.
- >
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- The human eye can't tell the difference between more than 16 million colours.
- So more bits is a pure waste. No matter how good your monitor is.
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- /Johan
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