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- From: Aldo Hoeben <io342042@student.io.tudelft.nl>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: a1200 graphics card.
- Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1996 17:11:10 +0100
- Organization: Delft University of Technology, faculty of Industrial Design and Engineering
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- D.J.Davies wrote:
- >
- > Could someone make one please, I'd like to buy one.[snip]
- > Oh well... we can only dream.
- >
- > Something that would plug into the monitor socket.....
-
- Or, alternatively, something that would plug into the PCMCIA-socket. Is
- this possible?
-
- I see a card, doing ONLY 24 it to HAM8 rendering. This would need two
- buffers on the Amiga; One for 24 bit input, one for HAM8 output.
- Since you use a hardware-conversion, things could be very fast.
- Alternatively, you could render 24bit to 256 colours (hardware
- rendering), giving far faster 256 colour output.
- OR: Just a hardware planar to chunky converter, very speedy, useing just
- the AGA modes.
-
- This would not require any new monitor or anything, and mean a very big
- speedup. Disadvantages:
- Two screenbuffers (maybe one on the PCMCIA-card?)
- Does not exist outside my dreams.
-
- Aldo
-