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- Path: cup.portal.com!PaulT
- From: PaulT@cup.portal.com (Paul - Tibbals)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Chunky
- Date: 2 Mar 1996 19:00:07 -0800
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- Sender: pccop@unix.portal.com
- Message-ID: <150749@cup.portal.com>
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-
- recently was posted:
- >I got the following document from the Austex web site.
- >We have all heard how it is due to a lack of chunky gfx output that Amiga
- >owners cannot enjoy games of a standard comparable to PC titles
-
- Well, the graphic architecture described in the Austex document that was
- quoted sounds a lot like that little display port box that came out about the
- same time as the Digital Creations unit. Right now I can't remember its
- name for the life of me, but the DCTV did its magic using video tech whereas
- the other one used a chip and some sort of bit-adding color scheme.
- However, it was pulled from the market (after substantial sales and reviews)
- due to a problem with never having pssed FCC certification, at least that
- was the story I heard. If someone has redone this in a manner that
- works, and actually can use chunky-type pics, and can still handle the
- good game stuff (collision detection, etc) that games need, then great.
-
- All we need then is: A Market for Amiga games... Producers for that market..
- And a hardware standard for that market that does NOT include
- 'A500 with 1 meg of memory and no hard drive' as an option.
-
- PaulT
-