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- From: manou.billa@ci.educ.lu (Manou BILLA)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.marketplace,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: A2410 Graphics Boards
- Date: 1 Mar 1996 08:47:31 GMT
- Organization: Not organized
- Message-ID: <2210.6633T1413T1063@ci.educ.lu>
- References: <Dn8yIF.E1t@on.bell.ca>
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- On 23-Feb-96 22:03:50, Kevin Currie (kcurrie@on.bell.ca) wrote to All () about
- Re: A2410 Graphics Boards (<Dn8yIF.E1t@on.bell.ca>):
-
- Hi Kevin
-
- >PA Williamson (philw@xplor.com) wrote:
- >: In article <Dn6z7M.Fw4@bandelier.cs.unm.edu>,
- >: iuzzolin@bandelier.cs.unm.edu (Harold Iuzzolino) wrote:
- >:
- >: > The A2410 is a Zorro-II card. 8-bit color, hi res (about 1024x760).
- >: > Looks nice under AMIX, especially with OpenGL programs under Mesa. The
- >: > dithering makes it look like a lot more than 256 colors. I haven't found
- >: > any software to get it running under AmigaDOS yet, but that doesn't mean
- >: > there isn't any.
- >:
- >:
- >: Hey! Me! me! (raising hand) :-)
- >:
- >: I'm running a 2410 with Workbench and Shapeshifter. EGS 7.2 runs just
- >: fine on the a2410. Brian King has written a 2410 driver for Shapeshifter.
- >:
- >: I run my Workbench at 800*600*256 all the time. I run my Mac emulator at
- >: same. All my software runs on it too. Games don't, but I don't play
- >: nothing but Fighter Duel.
- >:
- >: The A2410 does 256 color ( from 16.7 million ) at up to 1024*1024.
-
- > The only problem with the A2410 is that it's not too speedy. That's
- >why I sold Brian King mine :-)
-
- It's about Retina II speed. But the A2410 does have a TRUE GFX CPU with its own
- programming language! If you do know a superfast algorithm to draw lines,
- circles etc. just program the CPU and you're gone! That's not possible with all
- the other GFX boards available! OK these boards do have blitters and routines
- programed in ROMs but if they would have programmable CPUs they would be
- uptodate with the latest programming technics.
-
-
- --
- Bye Manou
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