Re: Wondering About Apple II video digitizing

[lockwood@ecs.csun.edu (James Lockwood)]

Mitchell Spector (spec@vax2.concordia.ca) wrote:
> In article pubpc1@library.ucla.edu writes...

>     That is _not_ TrueColor, in fact it is not even HiColor. Images that 
> qualify as either hold 24-bit or 16-bit color information. I suppose you 
> could use an Amiga in HAM mode to display all those 4096 colors, or a PC 
> or Mac of course (either way, custom software is required).

According to the earliest use of the term "TrueColor" that I know of
(MIT X10 internal spec), bit depth has nothing to do with it.  TrueColor
displays must implement a fixed word to color mapping without a palette
in the way (as opposed to PseudoColor, usually seen on beasts like the
IIgs or sub-16 bit modes on PC's).

If you know of a more authoritative source, I'd like to hear it.

-James

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James D. Lockwood                 College of Engineering and Computer Science
Unix System Administrator              California State University Northridge
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