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#Upgrade

    22-Apr-93 20:18:45
Sb: #Upgrade
Fm: John Dowdell 71165,3065
To: Erik Flom 71204,407
Hey Erik — no need to eat crow — it's time for burritos and cerveza instead! I'm glad to hear of the new features — looking forward to what y'all will do with them — can you clue me in more about HAM8, though? It's 256K colors, right? That's about 18-bit. But aren't there some palette restrictions — continuous colors or such? Since the NTSC gamut only runs to about 16 bits of color info, wouldn't HAM8 provide enough for video output? Do the HAM8 & NTSC color gamuts overlap completely, or do they include different colors? So, while 24-bit is good for film and print, isn't it pretty much irrelevant for video? And HAM8 works fine, yeah? Regards, John D.