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- Thomas Landgraf {tl@hrz-serv7.hrz.uni-kassel.de} posted news first...
- He mentions:
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- 32MHz Falcon card by GeSoft. Space for 128 megs of RAM, and a VME
- slot. An MPEG decoder from Brainstorm, he says it looked faster than
- a PC/Mac.
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- Jon Lovstad {jonal@dhhalden.no} mentions that the VME for that new
- card hasn't been implemented yet, Here's his words:
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- "Wasn't that just 32MB of RAM? BTW, they haven't implemented the VME
- yet. (I thought the chip looked like a 50MHz thingie from the reading
- of the print on it...)"
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- Jon wasn't impressed with the MPEG. "Well, I saw the thing and thought
- it sucked. They haven't laid too much work in it yet since they don't
- know if Atari buys it or not..."
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- So it seems this GeSoft board is floating on the edge of Rumorland. No
- one posted precise information as yet. I've also heard such comments
- as "Impossible" describing this board. But, after the Genie RTC with
- Bill, he says it works fine.
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- Jon added a few more bits of info. He mentions a InShape renderer, a
- new video-digitizer card by Matrix 8MB VRAM, 8MB DRAM + 1 meg on the
- digitizer, ~8000DM. He saw a 32MB TT put a 'base16' (3Kx2K pixels)
- PhotoCD onto the screen in 4 minutes.
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- Rune Hyldmo {runehy@dhhalden.no} added more to this thread.
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- Silminaris said they were finished with two Falcon030 specific games.
- Transartica and Ishar. Both are 256 color games with 16 bit sound.
- Rune only saw Ishar: "It looked good."
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- Vroom II from Lanchor, has a new multiplayer mode with 4 people on the
- screen at the same time. Rune didn't see any slow down from this mode.
- He mentions Space Junk looked good but was only a demo.
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- Eclipse from Eclipse (3D space game in 320x200 TC) looks smooth, but
- the DSP routines aren't implemented yet. The guy at the Eclipse booth
- gave a time frame of another 6 months.
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- Atari had a brochure listing products coming out for the Falcon030
- too, lots of great software coming out, some is finished.