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- From: papresco@cantor.math.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: CBM mention on 12/11/92 Computer Chronicles
- Message-ID: <C0AKG4.7n7@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 18:52:52 GMT
- References: <1992Dec20.063927.8541@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <BzKpzA.3op@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <1992Dec21.072519.15016@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
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- > It is not avalable on any Mac or PC that I have ever used. It is
- >only available on the Amiga. For example, right now I am running my
- >Workbench, Term, DeluxePaint, ProWrite, DirOpus, and EdPlayer. Right now
- >onscreen I can see my Workbench, Term, Deluxepaint, ProWrite, DirOpus, and
- >Edplayer. The Workbench has a 16 color palette, all shades of grey and
- >a little red. Term has grey, dark blue, light blue, and an unseen color
- >in its 4 color palette. DeluxePaint has 4096 color HAM modem on. ProWrite
- >is in 4 color mode, with purple, blue, white, and orange. DirOpus is in
- >16 colors including beige, two reds, two blues, yellow, green, and orange.
- >Edplayer looks like 16 colors, mostly black and grey, red and green.
- >
- > And I can see all of them in their original palettes, at the same
- >time. I can load 10 HAM pics, each with its own 4096 color palette, and
- >see all of their different paletes at the same time on screen with no
- >problems. I can order the screens any way I want, and slide them all around
- >faster than I can move windows. And moving windows is only moving ghosted
- >outlines, while moving screens is like moving 640x400x6 bitmaps or whatever.
-
- You are saying that on a stock Amiga, you can have, on your monitor at
- one time 400,000 colours, without AGA.
-