ham-e output res.
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i've gotten interested in amiga graphics, and i'm looking at the ham-e
package. it all looks real good, but i'd like to have more display
resolution. i believe the docs found here on cis claim 384 pixels
horizontal. will this ever increase, or is it an operational limit? what
vertical resolution goes with this (384×200, 384×400, or more)?
thanks…
—Andrew
The standard HAM-E goes to as wide as the Amiga chip set allows- that means
that you can get about 368 _visible_ pixels out of it, and you can work
with SuperBitMaps as well (all our s/w allows images much larger than the
Amiga's screen size – Image Professional in particular isn't limited by
anything but your memory).
The HAM-E Plus adds an "Anti-Alias Engine" which doubles the output pixel
rate and also provides many more colors on screen by (a) shortening the
original lores pixels until they are the same size as hi-res pixels, and
(b) inserting a new hi-res pixel in between the which originals which is
created by a 3-d (RGB) average of the neighboring pixels. This is an
Anti-alias operation and results in a more photo-like image.
There will not be a pure high res (in the Amiga sense of the term, 768
pixels) HAM-E unit because that would eliminate the ability to animate, and
to allow standard viewers to work with the images.
Of all the other graphics solutions available for the Amiga, only DCTV also
offers the ability to operate with standard viewers. The image quality is
far less than that of the HAM-E, even though it is nominally a lo-res
device, it doesn't have the same output res as the HAM-E. It is much lower.
Both products do allow standard viewers, such as AmigaVision or any littlle
PD viewer, to operate with these images.
For high resolution imaging, we currently recommend the Impulse FC24 – this
is a very fine unit, and provides 24 bit output at 1024 x 482.
Ben
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Vertical res: 480 NTSC, 560 PAL
Ben
Amateur Radio Callsign is A A 7 A S