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[continued] Black Belt Systems is here at AmiExpo showing off the new HAM-E adapter hardware which allows the Amiga to display over 256,000 colors or 256 colors out of a palette of 16 million. The HAM-E outputs standard RGB (I assume analog). The demo very effectively showed how much the graphics capabilities of the machine can be improved (and at a very low cost). We did notice that some of the pictures in the demo seemed to change color substantially when put into HAM-E mode. This may just be an artifact of the demo. The HAM-E should start shipping on July 3. NewTek is at AmiExpo in full force with a small booth at the front of the convention floor and a booth taking up one whole side of an aisle at the far end of the hall. They are demoing DigiPaint 3.0, DigiView 4.0, Elan Design's Performer 2.0 and Chroma F/X. Overall, if I had to describe this AmiExpo in one word it would be "VIDEO." — Mike Roth