Graffiti Board Worth?

[XDelusion]

So what are Graffiti boards selling for now a days?

Also, what are some good arguments that would convince me to keep it? I.E. how does it stand against the likes of Adobe Photo Shop and what have you?

I am a DOOM editor, can I benefit from this board, like can it retain quality that Photo Shop, Gimp, and the like can't or what?

Thankx!

[XDelusion]

Oh God! The forums critic/cynic has discovered me!!!

Because I don't know much about this piece of hardware, let alone the technical workings behind it, so as a result I need the advice of someone who perhaps knows more...

[XDelusion]

I've been looking at those Indivision boards and have been very tempted to grab one, presuming my Graffiti would not serve me better for my purpose which is related to editing classic 8-Bit DOOM Sprites and Textures (damn the Amiga and clones sorely need a DOOM editor).

I found this page:

http://www.softhut.com/apollo.html

Which near the end states:

"Adds 256 color (from a pallette of 262,144) CHUNKY modes to all models of the Amiga. With OCS/ECS chipset the maximum resolution is 384x576 pixels and with the AGA chipset it is 768x576 pixels. Because of the chunky nature of the Graffiti, it is easier to create and port texture-mapped games (like DOOM)"

I'm sorry, been out of the loop on Amiga technical terms for a while, but what is CHUNKY, and how can that provide with an angle in DOOM image editing that a program on your run of the mill PC, or any other Amiga paint program with graphics card like the Indivision one can't?

[XDelusion]

The idea isn't to play DOOM so much as it is to edit sprites, textures, and flats.

 Sadly, I don't believe any 68k Amiga (minus emulation or one powered by vapor such as the Coldfire) has the juice to power the DOOM engine my project is for. That being PrBOOM, which OS 4 does have a port of, therefore I do believe it would also work with MorphOS.

Anyhow, this Chunky business, what's it all about. Can someone explain Chunky to me in layman's terms?

 I noticed the Indivision board also supports this, so I'm sure it can do what ever the Graffiti does without having to bother with an old Commodore monitor. Is this correct?

[XDelusion]

O.K. Thankx!

Now in regards to quality. Would the end result any better or worse using this or a standard Amiga paint program to edit 256 color 8-bit images, as opposed to a paint suit on a PC?

[XDelusion]

Thankx Piru, that's what I was wondering.

I've been using Paint Shop Pro for the majority of the DOOM work thus far, though that's because of a GzDOOM project which makes use of high resolutions images, and I need the transparency.

As for the PrBOOM project, it is very hard sometimes to work with the images, especially when resizing sprites and what have you since everything is low-res 8-bit.

 I was always curios if there was a certain Amiga application that was capable of handling image files in a way that PC's or Macs never quite got the handle on, or in this case, a piece of Amiga hardware.