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Article #23249Re: ADVOCACY: Falcon - Why I'm buying it...
From: Kevin o donovan
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:00
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:00
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>>>>> On 21 Jan 93 22:16:36 GMT, cherborth@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (Chris Herborth) said: > I guess you didn't try using one of the nice 16-bit colour modes, eh? > Howard Chu (You know, great ST developer type? Ports GNU C for fun?) > reported that the system ran about 50% of normal speed in the > large/many-coloured modes. But are you going to be running a text editor in 16 bit colour? Personally I'd be happy with a high resolution 16 color display for most of my work (hopefully one of the same quality I get on my SM124), and the higher colour modes for games/art work. Kev
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!warwick!uknet!mucs!lucs!news.csc!abaddon From: abaddon@uk.ac.liverpool.scm.suprenum (Kevin o donovan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: ADVOCACY: Falcon - Why I'm buying it... Message-ID: <ABADDON.93Jan25165340@suprenum.uk.ac.liverpool.scm.suprenum> Date: 25 Jan 93 17:00:24 GMT References: <727425006.AA01136@contrast.wlink.nl> <C16EB9.EG3@ecf.toronto.edu> <H.ea.tXN2MjUkQNk@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca> Sender: news@compsci.liverpool.ac.uk (News Eater) Organization: Centre for Mathematical Software Research, Univ. Liverpool, UK Lines: 13 Nntp-Posting-Host: supr.scm.liv.ac.uk