CompuServe Messages

I'm a bit confused by this message. How do you feel that CBM is moving in the opposite direction from IBM and Apple in terms of displayable colors? Did they remove HAM without telling anyone? To the best of my knowledge, the 3000 can still display 4096 colors right out of the box. Now the Bridgeboard is a whole different ballgame. It is an independent option that has little to do with using a 2000 or 3000 as it's host. In any event, VGA is hardware as well as software, so I rather doubt it would be cost effective for CBM to produce a VGA capable bridgeboard for the Amiga at this time. (At least that would be the case for this customer. As long as the Amiga has PC slots equal to or in excess of the number of Amiga slots on a PC, I'd be happy with it.) I can't really comment on the special new modes. If I had to guess, I would imagine they were done that way as a trade-off between having the higher resolution available or having more color in an environment with a cost effective amount of RAM. I would also imagine that some enterprising third party developers will investigate the marketability of an add-on to increase the colors available in those modes once the 3000/2.0 chipset comes into general availability. (It may well be that the cost of such an add-on vs. the probable market would cause the idea to be dropped though.)