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- From: vombruch@quando.quantum.de (Stefan vom Bruch)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Falcon Graphics
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.065509.1858@quando.quantum.de>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 06:55:09 GMT
- References: <1992Aug25.124510.2938@aber.ac.uk>
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- Herbert Martin Sauro (hrs@aber.ac.uk) wrote:
- : Having now seen the Falcon at first hand (ie at the show) I was a bit
- : disappointed at the graphics. The 640x480 at 256 colour appeared to
- : be quite stable, almost as good as mono on an SM124. The higher colour
- : modes however, weren't very good and a number of the monitors showed
- : flicker which is a shame. But I guess with 640x480 2356 colour at least
- : we're now up to Mac and PC standard. The sound system was very good
- : though, I don't use my ST for music but the sound coming from the
- : Falcon was as good as a CD.
-
- I think most people were a bit disappointed with what they saw - that was
- the impression I got. The 640x480x256 mode is non-interlaced on a VGA monitor
- so it should be stable. Most monitors/TVs on the show however used the
- interlaced modes - I guess Atari wanted to show off the true-colour
- capabilities of the Falcon - that's were the flicker came from; not very
- impressive.
- There were some game demos on display: one Defender-like game which looked
- quite good and another arcade-adventure-like game, which looked okay but
- it took ages to load from hard disk - we are talking minutes(!)... not a
- very good choice if you want to show off the speed of a Falcon.
-
- I have to agree that the sound system was the most impressive thing about the
- Falcon. The graphic modes are more or less standard, nothing you haven't seen
- before but the in the sound department the Falcon shows its real strength.
- It gives you more possibilities and better sounds than any other computer
- system (in that price range anyway) - it's worth buying it for that alone.
-
- Stefan
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