A better 800x600

[Cammy]

I've been eagerly awaiting the 1280x1024 and 800x600 drivers since Ratte first told us it was possible. Let's hope we can finally use them with the next firmware update, bring it on!

Also, I'd love to see an OCS/ECS Amiga running in 800x600 in 16 colours, it can look quite nice and modern with a good palette and a small selection of visual enhancement patches on Workbench.

[Cammy]

Hey Ratte, how is this going? Will we ever be able to use this wonderful 800x600 mode on our Indivision AGAs and ECSs?

[Cammy]

HighGFX is pretty quick, especially when you're running FBlit. Here is a video of me running some programs on Workbench on an A1200 030/50 in 1024x768 HighGFX mode:

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Sorry there's no sound, YouTube couldn't recognize any of the audio codecs I tried using when I uploaded the video three times in a row trying to get it to work.

[Cammy]

That's impressive. Is that using one of your carefully dithered 16-colour modes?

Yeah it sure is. The blurriness of the camera hides the dithering a bit, but it still looks pretty neat for 16 colours, especially at that high resolution. Good thing though is if people think it looks okay, then it should look almost as good in 800x600 on an ECS machine.

[Cammy]

I think it's entirely up to Jens if he wants to release the new firmware for everyone or not. I'm sure a lot of people bought Indivisions under the impression that they'd be able to use these 1280x1024 and 800x600 resolutions, but it's been over a year since we've had a firmware update. I'm not really getting my hopes up anymore, it could be a good reason for us all to scrap our Indivision AGA MK Is and buy MK IIs to replace them. (Not that all of us can afford this)