Re: Update on Jeri's board (fwd)

From: Henry Sopko (henry.sopko_at_hwcn.org)
Date: 2001-03-09 22:06:31

I agree with John on this one. Keep the 24 bit!

Regards,
  
   Henry


On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, John West McKenna wrote:

> Ruud Baltissen writes (in reply to Jeri):
> >> I have to make some decisions about keeping the 24 bit modes or reducing
> >>them to 16 bit and adding a lot of fun features: PS-2 mouse, keyboard, high
> >>speed rs-232, IDE, OPL3 .....  What should I add?
> >
> >If I am allowed to form your opinion: I choose for the 16 bit + extra's.
> 
> I'd go the other way.  24 bit is much better quality (the hardware I'm
> working with now supports 16 bit, but we don't use it at all - 24 bit for
> anything we compute, and 8 or 4 bit paletted for anything pre-generated
> that will fit without looking bad).  16 bit looks *awful*.  OK, it's damn
> good compared with a standard C64, but on an absolute scale it's bad.
> 
> Also, extra features are extra development time, and extra bugs.  Keep the
> first one simple, and add the goodies later.
> 
> John
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