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- From: nwickham@nyx.cs.du.edu (Neal Wickham)
- Subject: Re: Tandy Unveils 16-Million-Color CD-ROM Multimedia system
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 05:15:29 GMT
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- In article <BzKosp.2zF@news.iastate.edu>, barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett:
- >
- Tandy has finally announced their new desktop MPC-compatible computer system
- >with a 16-million-color display and CD-ROM drive as standard hardware.
-
-
- If it is the one I was playing with at Radioshack today, it sure isn't very
- impressive. This one didn't have 16 million colors. They had another CDTV
- like device there called VIS that might have had 16 million colors and it
- wasn't too bad but alot like CDTV or CD-I. The demo I saw was slick, had
- a lot of animation and sound, but it was hard to manipulate with the
- remote control they had. The remote looked very game-ish or childish. I
- watched some kid play with it to see how he'd like it, but when he saw
- that there were no games to play on the demo he put it down.
-
- I don't think it will be any comparison to AGA CDTV. It looked a little
- better than CDTV though... but I only saw the demo.
-
- The MPC computer they had was really bad. It was basicly windows with a
- CD-ROM and was dog-slow. ...terrible. And the graphics sucked. ...all
- little dithered 256 color pictures. And the sound "clicked" when it
- swiched on sometimes.
-
- When you say 16 million colors, are you sure that wasn't the palette? Or
- was the reference to VIS rather than MPC?
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- NCW
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