NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/comp/sys/atari/st/18886

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From: [e-mail] (Bayard Wenzel)
Subject: Re: Apology:  True Colour *IS* great for games.
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Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 05:35:56 GMT
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Another nifty thing about TRUE COLOR Mode is that when writing complex computer
generated screens in real time, like the 3D projections of a flight sim., you
do not have to go through all the palette registers to find the closest RGB
match to the color you want to display. This looking up can take a lot of time,
specially when the comp. gen.'d screen has many colors, i.e. gouraud shaded
polygons (now some people qill say "Wait a minute! You can't generate g. shaded
polygons in real time! can you?" well think again. Simple gouraud shading is
not too time consuming. especially with a DSP. Look at the latest flight sims
for the PC line for some impressive example of this. And those things have slow
buses too!). What this all means is that TRUE COLOR Mode will not only look
better but it may also perform faster than 256 color mode when using this kind
of graphics!

Sebastian Ferreyra

I can't wait to get my hands on one of these falcons. I am negotiating for
a TV channel in Argentina to get Falcons too for DSP and low end video. The
cool thing is that I am the one that will get too fool around with all those
Falcons once they get them. Imagine, 2-3 Falcons in one room all linked up
thrugh the network. (mouth salivating heavily, saliva globs falling on
keyboard)