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- From: abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kelvin Leung)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Is HAM better than VGA?
- Keywords: graphics
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.050858.25223@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 05:08:58 GMT
- References: <1992Nov23.010026.7466@csd.uch.gr>
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- Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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- kilitzir@csd.uch.gr (Kilitzirakis christos 122) writes:
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-
- >Hello people,
- > Well,this is a short one...
- > Is the HAM mode better than VGA (256 colors) or NOT?
- > My primitive impression was that it surely is,after all
- >you get 4096 colors on screen.But after buying an Amiga (YES)
- >and play with it's graphics some,I realised that the HAM mode
- >is something like 'cheating',something like you know 32 sprites
- >on the C64...
- > The big hit came,when I took a gif from a friend own a PC and
- >I convert it and have a look at it...It was a shock,it looked better
- >on the PC thing!!!
- > Well,is that the case?Or did I missed a process in the conversion?
- > Please,e-mail me the answer (ypolo37@pasifae.cc.uch.gr) or put it
- > on nn.
-
- The regular Amiga only has a 4096 color palette, as opposed to the 256k
- color palette VGA has. Say, if a gif file needs a certain type of red,
- and that red isn't in one of the 4096 colors of the Amiga... no matter
- how kinds of red your Amiga can display, it still wont be able to display
- that particular red color. That's why VGA gifs seem to be look better.
-
- Have you tried using HamLabPlus? You can try using PCHD (sp?) and Dynamic
- (sliced) HAM +dithering. The picture quality should come close.
-
- > Thanks a lot,
- > Alkis Argiropoulos
-
- Yours Sincerely,
- Kelvin
- e-mail: abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu
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