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- From: hhoff@informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Helmut Hoffmann)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: EGS / CYBERVISION / ETC
- Date: 16 Jan 1996 14:48:39 GMT
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- aj592@ccn.cs.dal.ca (Paul McLeod) writes:
-
- >The amount of EGS-110 boards out there is small, this is true. But my
- >understanding is that this will probably change someone, with the new
- >owners of GVP tech, who plan on reviving the video cards as well.
- >(EGS-110 and Spec 28/24)
-
- The german company who bought the GVP rights (as far as I know) had
- no plans in the graphics area. They only continued support for the
- other products (e.g. accelerators).
-
- As the EGS-110 is only usable in Amiga 2000 in conjunction with
- a special GVP processor board, there does not seem to be any
- future for this. Amiga 3000 or 4000 users can do nothing with an EGS-110.
-
- >I know you have done some things for the EGS side of things. (Though I
-
- I also did something for the CyberGraphX (CyberShow Prof. 6.0)
-
- >have yet to try any of them) Would you be able to write a driver for the
- >EGS-100?
-
- As I don't have an Amiga 2000 nor a GVP accelerator nor an EGS-110,
- I could not write such a thing. The market for this particular board
- is just too small (as already said: only 100 have ever been produced
- as far as I know). Compared to modern boards as the CyberVision which
- has probably already sold at least 1000 times, this is rather a bit small.
-
- The EGS-110 does not even contain a blitter if I am right. It's power
- was only due to the direct connection with a fast accelerator board.
-
- Anyway, writing a CyberGraphX driver for this board would be a task
- of the CyberGraphX developers. Now, as CyberGraphX is a commercial
- product, there seems no other way.
-
- >Paul
-
-
- Bye
-
- Helmut
-
-