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- Date: Wed, 14 Feb 96 00:46:01 GMT+1
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- Subject: Re: Amiga doesn`t need Planar!
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- From: john.hendrikx@grafix.xs4all.nl (John Hendrikx)
- Message-ID: <john.hendrikx.4ebt@grafix.xs4all.nl>
- Organization: Grafix Attack BBS Holland
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- In a message of 12 Feb 96 Kenneth C. Nilsen wrote to All:
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- >> I think planar is important because the Amiga *always* is doing multiple
- >> tasks, and the memory is more important. No other machine can swap
- >> screens like the Amiga, and with a chunky-only display, you limit the
- >> number of screens that you can have open at once.
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- KCN> Another point: for us using the Amiga with professional video
- KCN> animations, we are depended on 25 fps full frames where bitplanes is
- KCN> still to be defeeted.
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- Another myth about planar.
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- Grtz John
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