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- From: dpg@cs.nott.ac.uk (Dave `geek' Gymer)
- Subject: Re: Graphic format
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.140307.11139@cs.nott.ac.uk>
- Organization: Nottingham University
- References: <1993Jan26.123239.9166@cs.nott.ac.uk> <1993Jan26.132748.7630@cs.nott.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 14:03:07 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan26.132748.7630@cs.nott.ac.uk> pcxkrm@unicorn.nott.ac.uk (K.R.Marshall) writes:
- >To be honest - I'm going to have _real_ problems dealing with any form
- >of bit-mapped colour graphics on the Atari
-
- Well, yeah, TUG! suffers from similar problems. It's all very well me
- having a 256 800x600 X11 display, but that's not getting my curses
- front end very far... :-)
-
- >(Mind you, if it's only
- >the Atari that's the problem everyone might just turn around and say
- >"so what?" - but I don't think this is a healthy attitude!)
-
- Well, I'm an ST owner too (famous Mega 2: used to develop Canvas!).
- Mind you, once I've got Llamatron for the PC...
-
- >Some kind of vector graphic system might be better - but this wouldn't
- >allow any nice scanned images etc.
-
- Just can't win, can we?
-
- >As an aside, Dave - had you noticed that we're in the same place?!
-
- Yup. At first I thought I was seeing my own posts...
-
- -- Dave
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