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From: koreth@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Steven Grimm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Colorburst
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Date: 9 Dec 87 00:19:24 GMT
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In article <8712082256.AA29067@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> IHLS400@INDYCMS (Holly Lee Stowe) writes:
>
>For those of you who have expressed an interest in Spectrum 512 and
>"that other program", I have a copy of Colorburst 3000 from Beery'sBit.
>(Not too difficult considering that Andrew Beery works at our local
>Atari dealership and is a member of the local user group...)
>
>I still have a lot of things to do and try with it, but in a nutshell,
>save your money right now, but you'll probably want to buy it soon.

If it uses the same display routine that the Colorburst demo posted to the
net, save your money.  That was a flickery demo that gave me a headache after
a few minutes, and certainly did NOT give the illusion of having more than
the usual number of colors on the screen.  Yuck.

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