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Re: 1989 presentation by Jay Miner
« Reply #14 from previous page: June 05, 2009, 11:56:59 PM »
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Jay was awesome. I would have loved to have met the guy.


So Jay wished he'd used chunky pixels and was looking forward to UNIX... I like the guy :)
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Re: 1989 presentation by Jay Miner
« Reply #15 on: June 06, 2009, 12:53:44 AM »
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So Jay wished he'd used chunky pixels and was looking forward to UNIX... I like the guy :)


I always rather liked the idea of hybrid pixels. Essentially a planar system where a plane can be more than 1 bit deep. A single "plane" of 8-bits would be equivalent to traditional 256-colour chunky pixels.
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Re: 1989 presentation by Jay Miner
« Reply #16 on: June 08, 2009, 06:59:15 PM »
Jay was way ahead of his time, a true visionary. I have used both of his systems, an Atari 8bit computer and also the Amiga 500. I wish he would have taken over Commodore. He was an Icon, and still is, in the earll Computer industry.
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