miner@ulowell.UUCP (04/10/87)
In article <5919@ism780c.UUCP> tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith) writes: >The Mac II will also let you do 256 colors as 1 byte plane. This >can make bitblt very easy to write ( look Ma, no shifting! ). Write, you mean in software? ---^ How primitive :-) Sorry about that, please no flames, the MAC-II has great _display_ hardware available as add on boards; just like Sun's, Apollo's...$$$ -- Rich Miner ULowell-Cntr for Productivity !ulowell!miner 617-452-5000x2693
kinner@wsucshp.UUCP (04/11/87)
Anyone who has been around for 5+ years will have to be familiar with the
funny compromises made in microcomputer video systems. The Apple II,
with 8 colors, but they can't all appear at once, or in adjacent pixels,
the Commodore 64, where 8x8 blocks of pixels shared the same foreground/
background color nybble. The list goes on and on.
You mean like HAM? *-)tim@ism780c.UUCP (04/14/87)
< Anyone who has been around for 5+ years will have to be familiar with the < funny compromises made in microcomputer video systems. < <You mean like HAM? *-) Just be glad Mattel isn't making computers. The way they did video on the Intellivision ( I wish I could remember how to spell that... ) makes everything anyone else has done look reasonable. You haven't suffered unless you have worked on a video game on a GI 1600 cpu, using a GI STIC video chip... The only thing worse was some of the proposals for the Intellivision 3. -- Tim Smith "Hojotoho! Hojotoho! uucp: sdcrdcf!ism780c!tim Heiaha! Heiaha! Delph or GEnie: Mnementh Hojotoho! Heiaha!" Compuserve: 72257,3706