On 22-Jul-08 15:33, scott wrote:
>> The resolution doesn't really compare, but the Amiga was targetted at 
>> normal TVs. The Amiga's 640x480 is quite near to modern DVD's 720x564.
> 
> The video chip on the Acorn was actually pretty cool, it was completely 
> programmable so you could pretty much drive anything you wanted from a 
> TV to a high resolution monitor.  Even when I got my first LCD monitor I 
> plugged it in and it worked!  If you found some weird monitor that 
> didn't quite work, chances were that someone could help you out and 
> write the config file for you.
> 
>> Thing is, up until this point, computer graphics had always been 
>> blocky things made out of a dozen flat colours. Computer graphics 
>> *looked* like computer graphics. Computer sound *sounded* like 
>> computer sound.
> 
> Well, to be honest, I don't see the *huge* leap between my BBC B from 10 
> years earlier that could do 640x256 and 16 colours to 640x480 and 32 
> colours.  I would have expected a lot more.
It is not only the number of colours, There was also the hardware to 
animate them at 25 frames per second.

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