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3 total messages Started by Andrew Nowinski Tue, 05 Jan 1993 16:33

#746

Author: Andrew Nowinski
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 16:33

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Hi,
   my name is Mark Nowinski I would want to know what is the
highest recordable resolution from Amiga.

--
Mark Nowinski
E-Mail: nowinski@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca

Re: amiga

#748

Author: Peter Sj|str|m
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 18:52

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In <C0E3BA.D0B@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca> nowinski@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca (Andrew Nowinski) writes:


>Hi,
>   my name is Mark Nowinski I would want to know what is the
>highest recordable resolution from Amiga.

	Please define recordable.

		/Peter

Re: amiga

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Author: David Watters
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 14:08

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In article <C0E3BA.D0B@watserv2.uwaterloo.ca> nowinski@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca (Andrew Nowinski) writes:
>
>Hi,
>   my name is Mark Nowinski I would want to know what is the
>highest recordable resolution from Amiga.

The highest recordable resolution on a stock amiga is using an AGA based 
machine and the "perfect for video" ~1300x480 mode (including overscan).
This mode has a 24bit palette (16.8M colors) and can be displayed in the
Ham-8 mode which uses an 8bitplane screen to display a theoretical number
of colors that almost matches the number of pixels. This is also supposed
to be as `animatable' as all the other modes, but I have not seen this yet.

A Toaster equiped Amiga has a 24bit D2 quality 752x480 buffer (2 of them
actually) and Ligthwave will render a 1500x960 pic and display it at
an antialiased 752x480.  note: Lighwave will also render a 3000x???? pic
for print and film.

The A1200 and A4000 are currently the only AGA based machines that have
been released.  On an ECS based A2000/A3000/A500/A600 your max resolution
is 1280x480 but with a much reduced number of colors.  Perfect for character
generation but not rendering.  Original Ham6 screens are 350+ x 480 with
4096 colors out of 4096.  Hires screens are 768x480 with 16 colors out of
4096, so you can see that on a stock machine... AGA is the way to go!

There are a number of other options from the inexpensive hardware add ons
such as DCTV, HamE, Avideo-24/12, OpalVision, all the way to the expensive
'realtime' 24/32 bit boards.

note: None of these specs include modes/resolutions that are not made for
going to tape such as the AGA 800x600 or any of the other hi-res boards
ment for Xwindows work and such.

David
Watters
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