In the June 1997 edition "Jay from the Info Super-highway"
asked about areview of the Graffiti video card. As you wrote, and told me during
the World of Amiga '97 show, Blittersoft didn't send a Graffiti for a review
yet. I suspect it's a strategy to support their "Fusion" software, because
the Graffiti is shipped with Shapeshifter drivers that speed up the
graphics by 3000% (three-thousand percent!) compared to the Amiga-bitplaned
mode PAL:interlace 640x480, 256 colours.
Jay also talks about "poor software support", but that's not true. Maybe it's a bit hard to get your hands on that software in the UK, but here's a list of programs that support the Graffiti:
Some rumors said that the Graffiti can only display 256 out of 4096 on a '500, but that's not true! The colour palette stays the same on every Amiga: 256 colours out of 262144 colours at a time on every Amiga! The only limitation on OCS/ECS Amigas is the resolution: With the old chipset, you can only display lores (up to 384 pixels/line), and with the AGA chipset hires is possible while keeping the full-speed access to the chipmem which is more than 7 MB/sec.
Golden Image will also start advertising and selling the Graffiti, and I'm going to send a Graffit for a review within the next 10 days (I've got lots of work to do, because I have moved..).
Jens Schoenfeld, developer of the Graffiti, Catweasel and Buddha, inventor of the buffered 1200 IDE interfaces. (Jens has requested we don't include his E-mail address)
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