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- From: dtiberio@engws10.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio)
- Subject: Re: CBM mention on 12/11
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.145116.29159@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 14:51:16 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.193851.25752@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> jerry@msi.com (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
- >Aric.Caley@ofa123.fidonet.org wrote:
- >:
- >: He's talking HARDWARE. The Amiga hardware allows for true, multiple
- >: screens, in a way thats different from any computer I have ever seen.
- >:
- >
- >Yeah, yeah. The Atari 400 could do similar things, although, of course, it
- >didn't have a multitasking OS to take advantage of it. The video display
- >was constructed from a list of instructions, each of which could specify
- >the resolution and pixel data address of a single line of graphics (or text).
- >Add horizontal blank interrupts, and you can modify the palette after each
- >scan line. Interesting, but really nothing new.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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- Wrong, the Atari 400 and the C64, with all their screen interrupts,
- can not display multiple screens like the Amiga can...an Atari ST can do a
- Boing! demo, but not like the Amiga can. You have obviously never used an
- Amiga...I can't stand using other computers since I have become so used to
- fast screen updates and multiple screens. I will upload a pic of what it
- looks like.
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- >| JERRY J. SHEKHEL | Molecular Simulations Inc. | Time just fades the pages |
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- Amiga Graphics Association BBS (516) 473-6351 24 HRS 14.4 v.32bis
- Thanks Gwen. Like I said, I had faith in #3. At least it answers the phone now.
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