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#1280×1280 24Bit

    25-Nov-92 22:32:04
Fm: Joe Flanagan 76520,652
To: Scott Bessel 72721,77
Go with the mac.. the 24bit amiga arena is not mature enough for you type of setting… and you CERTAINLY do not want to use the base amiga (even with the new AGA chips) to edit 1280×1280 24bit images…. The mac software is more powerful and the hardware is more supported. Trying to use an amiga to do this will only give you more headaches and less support…. For the same amount of money…. I.E. you have a developer here saying that you can edit said pictures on the amiga in "full image" mode at 640×400 and not lose "much" of the picture… Last time i checked 640×400 will give you 1/4 of a 1280×1280 image.. As such their "full image mode" strips out 75% of the pixels in your image in an attempt to display the "full image" in "full image" mode…. That is *NOT* going to be acceptable for your needs. If you find and add a display card to an amiga that supports 1280×1280 you'll be locked into the 1 or 2 software programs that support the card.. whereas on the mac everything works on the display including the operating system. I like the amiga very much but there are some things best left to macs (at least for now). Joe Flanagan A&a Printers