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From: ewhac@well.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: eXtra-Half-Brite: The Full Story Please!
Message-ID: <4648@well.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 6-Dec-87 17:23:27 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec  6 17:23:27 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 12-Dec-87 08:42:31 EST
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Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
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In article <6924@sunybcs.UUCP> ugfeldmn@joey.UUCP (Jon Feldman) writes:
>	Can anyone tell me the story behind Extra-Half-Brite, and why some
>machines have it and some don't?  Which Amigas do?  Why?  How?  Where?  When?
>What?  I don't understand!  Where's the tea?
>
	This was the story related to me by Dale Luck, and may be riddled
with inaccuracy.  I make no claims as to truth; it's what I heard.

NationalEnquirerMode (ON);

	In the beginning, there was a chip.  This chip could do all the
vanilla modes, but HAM mode was buggy.  Almost no one saw this version of
the chip (except some unlucky dealers whose demo systems had it).

	Then HAM mode was fixed.  And Commodore saw it was good, said it was
good, and it was good.  And Commodore said, "Go forth and multiply these
chips."  And there were many chips.

	Then, an engineer at C-A re-did the chip mask, and discovered that,
for next to no silicon space, he could add Extra-Halfbright mode.  And he
did so, and saw it was good.  And Commodore agreed that it was good, and
said, "Multiply these chips also."

	And the engineer said, "Wilt thou use these all-new good nifty chips
in thine production system?"  And Commodore replied, "Yea, but not until
after we've gone through all these old ones first."

	And so some systems had Halfbright, and some didn't.  And the
Universal Uncertainty did arise, giving forth many EHB-testing programs.

	And Commodore did partially resolve the Uncertainty, saying unto the
masses, "All 2000's and 500's have the Halfbright feature."  The Uncertainty
still exists for the 1000, but may be resolved by purchasing on thine own
the coveted Halfbright chip, for the draconian price of ~$62.00.

NationalEnquirerMode (OFF);

	Does this help?

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