Re: Update on Jeri's board (fwd)

From: Professor Dredd (profdredd_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 2001-03-10 00:38:44

Okay, 24-bit video would be kick-ass, but ...
PLEASE ETHERNET TOO!!!

--- Henry Sopko <henry.sopko@hwcn.org> wrote:
> 
> 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.


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