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- Subject: Re: If AA then Why OpalVision?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.002855.2469@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU>
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- References: <15scafINN39j@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> <63540@cup.portal.com> <1992Aug11.031341.19729@ariel.ec.usf.edu>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 00:28:55 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug11.031341.19729@ariel.ec.usf.edu> stelmack@eggo.tmc.edu (Gregory M. Stelmack) writes:
- >In article <63540@cup.portal.com> DonD@cup.portal.com (Don Robert DeCosta) writes:
- >>
- >>If the AA Chip Set exists... And it can be installed in a 500/2000/3000...
- >>And developers know they exist... Why would Centaur bother bringing
- >>OpalVison to market? Why would INOVAtronics bother bringing AVideo 24 to
- >>market?
- >>
- >>These things worry me... >:-|
- >>
- >
- >Perhaps because they are two different things? Assuming the posts on AA are
- >correct, we have 256 colors possible on screen (forgetting about HAM and the
- >like). OpalVision and AVideo24 allow each pixel to have a different color.
- >AA is enough for most users with average applications, the others for high-end
- >video and graphics work.
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- I don't know if you have seen hamE or DCTV, they seem to have a ham modeand you don't see any fringing.
- At that resolution and at that number of colors ... There will be a
- small (=0) market for 24 bit frame buffers that don't go to higher resalutions.
- Offcource they are not only frame buffers. It remains to be seen if any software will support them.
- George
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- >
- >--
- >-- Greg Stelmack (stelmack@eggo.csee.usf.edu)
- >-- FullTime Grad Student, PartTime Amiga Salesman, PartTime Amiga Developer
- >-- Author of: Spades, Pro Port Analyzer Plus, more to come...
- >-- DISCLAIMER: The opinions reflected here are mine and mine alone.
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