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From: wmb@pi.Eng.Sun.COM (Mitch Bradley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.os.os9
Subject: Want OS9 disk driver for Atari ST/Supra
Date: 8 Apr 92 16:53:17 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: mitch

I have an Atari ST with a Supra hard disk drive.  I have OS9 for
the machine, but it only works on floppy disks.  I can setup the
hard disk partition table using the OS9 FDISK program (which runs
under GEM), but when I try to format the hard disk under OS9
(format /h0fmt), the system hangs.  It appears to be waiting for
an interrupt or something.

Does anybody have a modified driver that will work with the Supra drive?
(well, actually it's the Supra controller that appears to be the
problem; I have tried both the original Miniscribe drive and a newer
Quantum drive, both to no avail)

Alternatively, does anybody want to sell me an Atari hard drive system
for cheap?

Please respond directly via email, to either:

	Mitch.Bradley@Eng.Sun.COM
    or
	forthware.uucp!mitch.bradley@auspex.com

Thanks,
Mitch Bradley
From: zxmkr08@mailserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (Cornelius Krasel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Word Processors
Date: 15 Apr 92 11:51:29 GMT
Organization: Comp. Center (ZDV) U of Tuebingen, FRG

In <1992Apr14.191844.21346@rhrk.uni-kl.de> schwager@arctecserv-2.informatik.uni-kl.de (Johannes Schwagereit) writes:

>> > Features I would want are:  automatic footnoting, style sheets or equivalent,
>> > ability to import graphics and flow text, variety of font sizes and styles,
>> > and Postscript-to-disk output.
>> > Note that I DON'T want a page-layout program, just a word processor.  I read
>> > a review of 1st Word Plus some time back and it seemed to have most of these
>> > features.  Can anyone comment?  Plug your favorite program, here's your chance.
>> > 
>> 

>This is definitely not true!
>I don't know the international (english-speaking) market, but here (in Germany)
>there are at least four or five excellent programs available:

>SCRIPT
>SIGNUM II
>SIGNUM III
>CyPress
>That's Write

I'd like to add Tempus Word (also a German program) which seems comparable
with SIGNUM II or III. It has some drawbacks in its version 1.10:
- no postscript output
- no output to disk in general (I wrote a small program to circumvent this)
- several slight bugs
- automatic footnoting does not always work properly
  (It may have more bugs, but these are the ones I found out so far.)
Advantages:
- WYSIWYG (as usual, to take with care)
- VERY fast
- seems to run on all TOS versions out there (I use it on a MegaSTE with
  TOS 2.05)
- supports SIGNUM fonts

Tempus Word 2.0 is said to come out RSN. (Well, it was announced for the
end of February :-)
--
/* Cornelius Krasel, Department of Physiological Chemistry, U Tuebingen    */ 
/* email: krasel@mailserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (Internet)                  */
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/* "People are DNA's way of making more DNA." (anonymous)                  */
From: Bill_Moore@mindlink.bc.ca (Bill Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: **** TERMINAL PROGRAMS ?? ****
Date: 6 Apr 92 20:15:39 GMT
Article-I.D.: mindlink.11279
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada

I have been using Uniterm for the past couple of years, with
absolutely no problems.  It is PD.  It has lots of features.
The latest version is, I think, 2.0e.  Should be available wherever fine PD
software is found.
        Hope this is useful

-bill
--
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
e-mail: Bill_Moore@mindlink.bc.ca * I've been absolutely terrified every
fax: 604-254-0934                 * moment of my life and I've never let
voice: 604-254-0934               * it keep me from doing a single thing
__________________________________* that I wanted to do.
__________________________________*               -- Georgia O'Keefe
From: andyc@hplsla.hp.com (Andy Cassino)
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 20:06:14 GMT
Subject: Re: does atari staff read usenet?
Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st

wilsont@prism.cs.orst.edu (Timothy E. Wilson) writes:
> 
> I was wondering (with all this talk of falcons and nifty ideas people want)
> if atari staff read the net, and if they do, tell anyother 'higher' staff
> (designers, CEO's etc.) what everone here is wanting etc..
> while this is a small sample of the atari population, it does seem to be
>  a wide spread, from beginners to heavy hitters.
> ----------

Well, they read and respond to people in the Atari ST Roundtable in GEnie,
which, by my estimation, has three or four orders of magnitude more
participation than this notesgroup. It's also where most of the commercial
(U.S.) developers can be found, if they can be found on an electronic 
media. My point being, I don't think there's any shortage of feedback 
arriving at Atari's doorstep, from the full spectrum of novice users to 
developers.  (No shortage of whiners, either, but the GEnie sysops are 
effective at eliminating base note drift, so it is much easier to ignore 
them, and that alone justifies the cost of GEnie in my book).

Disclaimer: These are my own opinions, and I'm not affiliated with GEnie, et
cetera.


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    % Andy Cassino                                       %
    % Hewlett-Packard - Lake Stevens Instrument Division %
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: subiaagb@w350zrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de (Andre Pareis)
Subject: Re: GIF
Keywords: File format.
Organization: ZRZ der TU-Berlin
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 10:20:16 GMT

In article <1983@pegase.enst.fr>, elendir@pegase.enst.fr (Vincent Habchi) writes:
|> 
|>  Hello.
|>  This may be a FAQ, but I'm looking for the GIF ('89 and '87) file format.


If you can wait some days, I could send you approx. 80K descriptive text of
the GIF file format. I ftp'ed it some months ago, but then I forgot the site.

Mail me your interest 'til next week and I'll unpack and send it.





Andr'e Pareis,		e.g.	pareis@cs.tu-berlin.de
			or	subiaagb@w350zrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: elee8zz@rosie.uh.edu (Pagan, John)
Subject: How can i hang up the phone in UniTerm?
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Keywords: Uniterm, Supramodem, Hang up?
Organization: University of Houston
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 08:30:00 GMT

Hello there!

I just got uniterm like two days ago and I can't hang up the modem with
<alt><h>.  Whenever I do that, the modem sends the string to the remote
host instead of hanging up.  My modem is a Hayes compatible SupraModem 2400.
I have tried different combinations of hang up strings and nothing seems to
work.  Any suggestions...?

				John Pagan
				elee8zz@jetson.uh.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: chuj@horton.Colorado.EDU (CHU JEFFREY)
Subject: Re: mega ste price
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 00:19:59 GMT

In article <1992Apr16.155838.11328@newshost.lanl.gov> hutch@bellman.lanl.gov writes:
>In article 1975@ucsu.Colorado.EDU, chuj@horton.Colorado.EDU (CHU JEFFREY) writes:
>
>>I don't think NERD is definied by how many computers you have.  I alone
>>have 7 computers(2 ATARI, ST, 486-33, 386SX20 Notebook,286, MAC 030).
>>It's true that alot of my old high school buddies call me a computer geek,
>>but look at what most computer science majors would have in their homes.

Besides my old friends calling me cpu geek, my wife also as well now (of
course she's joking, I hope).
By the way I got some of my old friends totally interested in computers, by
showing demos that they would never imagined existed, but like some of them
they are interested in arcade games.

>Ah, some of us just can't seem to get enough, can we Jeffrey?  But my intention
>was to imply that a true atari BIGOT (as I was called) wouldn't be caught dead
>with anything _but_ an Atari.  Me, I like 'em all... just can't afford 'em.
>

Well actually enough is what I said, I had the 2 8 Bit ATARIs since I was
12, and still plan to keep these hopefully forever.  I jumped into the ST
for school and then the 486 for difficult planetary simulations, later
the notebook was a great idea, since I work with a professor in development
on the pc simulation.  The 286 came in for free and the MAC LC II came in last
2 weeks ago.  I figure buying a 030 card and a hard drive and a graphics
card for the ST would be more than just buying a MAC 030 already in.  The
286 is going out and the ST will be as well when the GEMULATOR comes out.
I hope to get rid of the MAC as well as soon as I learn more on programming
graphic applications on it.

I like to say thanks for all the replies for the ST magazine info.  ATARI
people always seemed to be one big family.  I'm glad I was able to be a
part of this group.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: cs331109@umbc5.umbc.edu (cs331109)
Subject: Re: mega ste price
Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore Campus... 
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 19:30:18 GMT

Out of Curiosity, how is Caligraphy Jr?  I have Word Perfect, but its not
supported anymore, and I'm still somewhat insulted that WP pushes people
to 'Upgrade' to the IBM version.  Does it support FSM Gdos?  Pictures?
Page Layouts?  Will it wash my car?....

Paul...
From: jvance@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Joachim Vance)
Subject: Re: Yikes!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Reply-To: jvance@ics.uci.edu (Joachim Vance)
Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept.
Date: 11 Apr 92 08:26:14 GMT

In article <1992Apr10.053113.17730@thoth.rent.com> azog@thoth.rent.com (Billy D'Augustine) writes:
>
>I use UniTerm (2somethingE), due to the fact when logging into my VAX,
>doing a $ SET TERM/INQ and then a $ SHOW TERM, it is indeed a VT220!
>(execpt for the fact that I have to use the delete key). Ive never used
>Flash, is it true VT1xx-2xx also? This is very important to a person
>who spends 90% of his time logged into VMS...

  The old Flash only supports VT52, ANSI (Mostly VT100), and VIDTEX.
The new Flash, Flash II, seems to try to do everything.  Here's some
of the support it offers:

*       Supports the following terminal emulations:  TTY, VIDTEX,
        VT52, ANSI, VT100, VT101, VT102, VT200, VT300 & Prestel.

*       Supports ST, IBM and DEC characters sets.

*       Internally supports the following protocols:  ASCII, Xmodem,
        Ymodem, Ymodem-G, Zmodem, Modem7, WXModem, CIS B+, Kermit,
        SEAlink, and Telesoftware (for Discovery/Prestel systems).

   The Shareware Freeze Dried Terminal also supports as many or more
terminal emulations and a hoard of protocols.  It will be interesting
to see how both of these do.
--
Joachim Vance
^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~
     I am antisesquipedalian--Opposed to the use of long words.
^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~
From: adhir@cygnus.umd.edu (Alok Dhir)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Word Processors
Date: 14 Apr 92 19:12:34 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization

Buy Spectre GCR for your computer and just use MS Word for the Mac!

						- Al
From: andre@cix.compulink.co.uk (Cygnus Software Ltd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Missionware (Flash II) contact?
Date: 15 Apr 92 09:50:39 GMT
Reply-To: Cygnus Software Ltd <andre@cix.compulink.co.uk>
Organization: Gated to News by demon.co.uk


Could someone let me know the address & phone number (and/or email address)
of Missionware, the people who publish the Flash II comms package? Replies
by email please, to avoid cluttering up the net.

Many thanks,

Andre

Andre Willey                       |  Email: andre@cix.compulink.co.uk
7 Oaklands Road, Sutton Coldfield, |         andre@cix.uucp
West Midlands, B74 2TB, England.   |         ...{mcsun}!uknet!cix!andre
Phone: (UK) 021-308-5251           |  "Il est mort, Jean Luc..."
From: heni@bio129.uni-bielefeld.de (Henning Rattenholl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Overscan Mod
Date: 16 Apr 92 12:47:59 GMT
Reply-To: heni@bio128.uni-bielefeld.de (Henning Rattenholl)
Organization: Universitaet Bielefeld

The best way to get information about the Autoswitch OverScan is to ask Carsten  
Isakovic (one of the authors) for information:

ki@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Karsten Isakovic)

---

| Henning Rattenholl
From: reeuwijk@dutentb.et.tudelft.nl (C. van Reeuwijk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Atari Buying Up Good Software?
Date: 14 Apr 92 12:02:55 GMT
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering

In <5440178@hplsla.hp.com> andyc@hplsla.hp.com (Andy Cassino) writes:


>The past week I've read (on GEnie) that Atari has purchased SuperBase 
>for the ST from Oxxi, Inc (which bought it from Precision Software, the 
>creators of the program). Also, I read that Atari bought LDW Power (from 
>LDW). In both cases, the story seems to be, upgrades are no longer available 
>from these companies for these programs, and no one seems to know what 
>the deal is.
>Inviting speculation, positive or negative, BUT.... please post blatant 
>pointless whining elsewhere!

Well, obviously Atari is not interested in reducing the sales of
these packages, only in increasing them.

Atari Benelux sells Dutch language versions of a number of programs,
such as Calamus and related software, First Word Plus and Timeworks
DTP and Adimens (a database program). Probably Atari Benelux has
invested in the translation of these programs to encourage sales
in the Benelux.

My speculation is that by purchasing these programs Atari USA is trying
something similar: encouraging the sales of these packages,
and indirectly the sales of Atari computers.


=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
C. van Reeuwijk                  e-mail: reeuwijk@et.tudelft.nl
Delft University of Technology   Phone: +15-781429
Dep. of Electronic Engineering   Telefax: +15-785922
Mekelweg 4
2628 CD  Delft, The Netherlands
From: willing@pantheon.icsl.ucla.edu (Scott Willingham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Best Vi-Clone?
Date: 16 Apr 92 21:51:51 GMT
Organization: University of California at Los Angeles, EE Dept.

In article <1992Apr16.033858.14459@watmath.waterloo.edu>
  ljdickey@watmath.waterloo.edu (L. J. Dickey) writes:
>One uses disk support rather than free Ram space, 
>even though the Ram space may be abundant.   Some safety in
>that, I suppose.

Elvis uses temporary disk files as does "real vi".  This makes it possible
to recover all but the latest editing change after a system crash.  It also
tends to keep the memory usage constant which is helpful when multitasking.
I have my mint.cnf set up to automatically check for and recover editor
files upon system booting (similar to vi under unix).

Two suggestions for elvis users:
  1) If you don't have a hard disk or just want to use ram for files,
     set up a ram disk and point elvis's tmp files to it.
  2) If you are using a hard disk and MiNT:  Set up a tmp directory on
     a minix file partition for elvis files.  Then in your elvis.rc,
     add the line "set nosync".  This will make file changes faster,
     eliminating occasional delays.  (Reason: TOS files must be closed
     and reopened to make sure current changes are flushed to disk--
     this has to do with updating the TOS file-size field.  Under TOS,
     elvis has the default "set sync" which sets the constant updating.
     Without this, file recovery breaks.  With a minix file system under
     MiNT, however, the tmp files remain consistant with "set nosync"
     and the delay is eliminated).

-- Scott Willingham // willing@icsl.ucla.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: bl692@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dan Ackerman II)
Subject: Re: Developers can get Atari Falcon computers in April?
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 92 04:41:31 GMT


	I have the problem that my local Archemides A5000 dealer 

has gone belly up...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: HD cache for the MegaSTe
From: Roger.Sheppard@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 07:51:56 GMT
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange

In article <3354@equinox.unr.edu> chan@pyramid.unr.edu (Kaho Chan) writes:
> Hello out there...
> 
> Are there any suggestions for a HD cache for my MegaSTE either PD or commercial?
> 
> I DID use Cold Hard Cache 3.5 this week but it caused a minor predicament for melast night.  As soon as I enabled it, my FAT tables started to deteriorate on 
> two of my partititions (drive F and G)... maybe I am wrong... but I am taking nochances...  After major surgury, I only lost 6 files (whew!)... (thanks, Brian
> T.)
> 
> Any suggestions (especially cache for the MegaSTE (read or write)) will be 
> greatly appreciated...
> 
> Please email to:
> 
>      __________                   _______
>     / ________()  Kaho Chan(man) /      /
>    / /\______    University of  /*     /
>   / /_/_____()  Nevada, Reno    \     /
>  /_________    Internet:         \   /
>  L________()  chan@cs.unr.edu     \/^
> 
> PS... Thanks BOB and his user's group for the translation of Crack Art into
> English!  

Atari Corp, posted theres to the Net some time back, it could be on A.A...
-- 
***  Roger W. Sheppard      *      Roger.Sheppard@bbs.actrix.gen.nz  ***
***  85 Donovan Rd        *    *   GEnie.  R.SHEPPARD5               ***
***  Kapiti                        At least I don't Flicker,         ***
***  New Zealand..          *      not like a dying light globe      ***
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center
Date: Saturday, 11 Apr 1992 19:53:26 EST
From: Joshua Kronengold <JOKHC@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Can I send e-mail to pay services?

In article <40250033@hpindda.cup.hp.com>, goo@hpindda.cup.hp.com (Michael Goo)
says:
>
>I don't know about any of the others, but you can send mail to CompuServe
>users from the internet.  Their email address would look something like:
>
>     <userid>@???.compuserve.com
>
Actually, it's dddddd.ssssss@compuserve.com, where the compuserve id is
dddddd,ssssss.
For the inverse, (and which services are uncontactable (like genie and prodigy)
see the alt.bbs.internet FAQ (and DON'T post questions there, it's off topic,
but they put it in the faq because every loser asked about it there).
From: gt1448b@prism.gatech.EDU (David P. Forrai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Gemulator
Date: 10 Apr 92 00:51:57 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

I think most people are missing the point about Gemulator.  Getting ST
users to dump their STs, buy a 386 (or higher) PC and Gemulator is not
it.  Getting PC users to buy Gemulator is.  If Gemulator is sucessful
in the PC market, it will help the ST market.  Maybe then when I tell
PC users I own an ST they won't ask "is that like a Nintendo?".

-- 
David P. Forrai
uucp:	  ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!gt1448b
Internet: gt1448b@prism.gatech.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: arendi@loke.soo.dec.com (Jack A.)
Subject: Re: Rumours about new releases....
Reply-To: arendi@loke.soo.dec.com 		
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 06:16:27 GMT

	As i understood it, it was supposed to be a 20 MHz 68030 and NOT a 68020
	in the TT020.

		Jack
From: aq115@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Robert C Glover)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TOS chips
Date: 12 Apr 92 22:08:50 GMT
Article-I.D.: usenet.1992Apr12.220850.1658
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)


William:
 
Techincally, yes, your TOS chips are interchangable.  How easily
depends on whether your 1040ST has a two or six chip set.  If
it has two chips, then just open each one up and change the
chips, just be sure to get the chips back in their corresponding
sockets.
 
If the 1040 has a six chip set, then you'll need to do a little
solder work to make it work.  I'm not sure what has to be done.
Perhaps someone else can tell us.  I'd like to know!
 
Rob
-- 
| Robert Glover                               GEnie:  R.GLOVER3 |
| Internet:           rg@turing.acs.virginia.edu                |
| Cleveland Freenet:  aq115@cleveland.freenet.edu               |
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Atari Stuff
From: strachan6183@mtroyal.ab.ca
Date: 1 Apr 92 11:14:27 MST
Organization: Mount Royal College, Calgary, Alberta


 Hi, I was wondering if anybody has the address for Atari California as I
want to get the extended docs for Tos 1.4 and some of the books they are
offering for the Atari ST as I want to get some of the books they are 
offering for the Atari ST. If anybody has any info please reply to this
message of if anybody has the usenet address for Atari Canada please post
it. Thank you
From: jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca (John Henders)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Organization:  One of these days.
Subject: Re: Good software (Was: mega ste price
	<H.&578FyydmsU@icemark.oche.de> <1992Apr14.175746.24409@cs.wayne.edu>
Reply-To: jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca
X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.00 Rev. Jan 16 1992
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 17:57:38 -0600

In <12548@umd5.umd.edu>, Alok Dhir writes:
>"the above would probably cost $9K"...
>
>A new 486/50 EISA clone can be had with all the frills for around $4500.
>
    Priced Unix lately? How about the price of Unix software?


-- 
There are a lot of intelligent people on the net that will go
ballistic when they are subjected to something stupid.
-- Larry Smith on the rec.arts.manga debate
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
From: swwhatley@lescsse.jsc.nasa.gov (STEVEN WHATLEY)
Subject: Re: Disabling upper 2 megs.
Organization: Lockheed Engineering and Sciences
Date: 13 Apr 92 13:20:40 GMT

In <92104.033254JJL101@psuvm.psu.edu> J.J. Lehett <JJL101@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>    I have a Mega 2 ST that is upgraded with xtra Ram upgrade to 4 megs.
>I am looking for a program that will disable EXACTLY that upper 2 megs of
>ram, and leave the ST in a state as if this were not installed.  I need this
>to test out some problems I have encountered.
>   Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I have had the seme problens with my MEGA 4 because of the extra two megs.
for example, Zany Golf would crash whenever the score card appeared.  I called
the dealer and he suggested that I create a 2 meg ram disk using a reset
proof ram disk like MEGMATIC (sp?).  That solved my problems.  Hope it helps.

Later,
Steven
From: willing@pantheon.icsl.ucla.edu (Scott Willingham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Falcon
Date: 7 Apr 92 21:11:32 GMT
Organization: University of California at Los Angeles, EE Dept.

In article <56761@cup.portal.com> Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes:
>Marshall Lake asked:
>
>>What does "True Color" mean?
>
>"True Color" is a term used to describe 24bit color computer video.
>At that level of emulation of color (I don't remember the exact
>number of individual colors available with 24 bits, but it's
>extremely high... on the order of 99 gazillion..), the human eye
>no longer can tell the difference between the computer generated
>image and a "true" photographic image.
> 

Eight bits per color is certainly as good or better than typical video
systems.  Production quality video cameras (including HDTV types) typically
have a dynamic range of 40 to 50 dB in each color channel.  High-quality
CRT and projection displays are little better.  Eight bit channels have
a signal-to-noise ratio of 49 to 50 dB.  Only very specialized systems
would need more than eight bits per color channel.

-- Scott Willingham // willing@icsl.ucla.edu

p.s.  I suspect that "true color" refers to direct storage of RGB values
      in video RAM as opposed to the use of color palette lookup tables.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st