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NEW USER

    13-Sep-89 23:33:13
Sb: #22193-NEW USER
Fm: Ray Lewis 76057,467
To: RICK CASTRO 73567,1715
Rick: Sound is 8 bit, with a 4 voice synth built into the machine. Therefore, you can have 4 separate instruments (or sounds) playing single note lines simultaneously, or you can have one instrument playing 4 mote chords, or you can have any combination which uses up to 4 voices at once. It also has a voice synthesizer built into the standard system software. It multitasks (you can run more than one program at a time). It can support 320×200 or 400 screens with up to 32 colors (64 colors using extra halfbrite mode, but the other 32 are the same colors with half the brightness i.e. a bright green and a muted green, etc.) It can support 320×200 or 400 (pixels) screens with up to 4,096 colors at once in HAM (hold and modify) mode (you have to see this to believe it). It can support 640×200 or 400 screens with up to 16 colors. (BTW, the 400 screens are interlaced, like you TV screen, so on a computer monitor they flicker. However, because they are interlaced (like your TV) you can output Amiga screens and animation to a video tape recorder with interface devices that cost as little as $75.) There are terrific paint, animation and 3-D ray tracing programs available, <continued>