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Article #510Re: Buying a multimedia system
From: SHUK C YIP
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1992 01:59
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1992 01:59
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In article <1992Sep7.183146.10658@waikato.ac.nz> ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) writes: > >I, too, would like to know for sure. The Mac was built with a hardware- >independent graphics model from the ground up, whereas the Amiga seems >highly reliant on the peculiarities of a particular set of graphics chips. >*Can* you indeed plug a 24-bit display into an Amiga, and immediately run >all your existing applications on it in 24-bit mode, like you can on the Mac? > Some, not all because AmigaDos doesn't support 24 bit directly. eg. DCTV is supported by most rendering and graphics programs, however, not application programs.
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