Re: TurboRez Rumors

[ltchean@iss.nus.sg (Lim Thye Chean)]

Jimmy Shaw (eaiu184@rigel.oac.uci.edu) wrote:

: >True. I saw the TurboRez myself in a GS with my own eyes, and can verify this
: >is true. In fact, in my opinion, the display is better than the IBM.

: Not trying to start a flame war or anything: how do you figure that a
: 640x480x256 display is better than, oh let's say, 800x600x65536 or 
: 640x480x16.7 million display?  It *might* look better/as good if you are
: displaying dithered pictures like GIF (which is limited to 256 anyway,)
: but not when you display things like Jpegs.

Jim, I am not comparing 640 x 480 x 256 with display higher. Of course, if
you own those Super VGA or XGA stuffs, it *might* look better. I am comparing
it with the 640 x 480 x 256 colours of PC. One thing is, I don't see the
square pixels that I so used to see on the PC and the colours seem a little
richer. It is similar to compare the GS 320 mode pictures with MCGA mode. On 
the GS, the jazzy is not as obvious and it does seem better.

: My feelings exactly, Thye Chean.  Had the TurboRez come out last year,
: I would not have moved on to the 486 (at least, it would have been less
: likely).  And now that I've heard Steve Chiang is no longer doing updates
: to DreamGrafix (a natural candidate for supporting the TurboRez,) I really
: wonder how useful and successful TurboRez will be.

My opinion is, I might get a PC myself with CD-ROM too. I am so amazed by the
CD-ROM games of PC. So I might get a PC just to play that. But I too know
that I don't exactly *need* a computer, perhaps because of my job nature
that I am already using computers far better than the PC. All I need is a
*hobby*, and using GS is my hobby. So is collecting new software and hardware
for GS. I do love these.

I am not sure about what you said about Steven Chiang. This is not exactly what
he told me. He is just busy with his studies at the moment. And I am still
the beta tester of v1.1. I think there is about 50% chance we can see a
TurboRez version of DreamGrafix if TR arrives soon.

By the way, does you know that TurboRez comes with its own software such as
a painting program and a GIF converter? The painting program I saw at that 
time was not yet done, but half of the features work and it does look cool.

: Jimmy

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