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***** COLORBURST *****
TRUE 24 BIT COLOR!
At last! An affordable 24 bit colorcard with high resolution and great
flexibility. ColorBurst delivers TRUE 24 bit color with 16.8 million colors
per pixel in full overscan. With a resoulution of up to 768 x 560 pixels,
this is a professional graphics card at a consumer price.
ColorBurst is more than just a display card. It includes a powerful graphics
coprocessor that generates many real time video effects.
ColorBurst is a complete ready to use system, including a slideshow program,
Sculpt, Silver, and DigiView loaders, and a 24 bit IFF paint and image
processing program.
ColorBurst allows you to freely mix Amiga and ColorBurst Video, (WorkBench
could be displayed with a 24 bit picture behind it, and because ColorBurst has
its own memory, it doesn't tie up any Amiga memory).
ColorBurst is compatible with ALL Amigas, and is fully transparent allowing
your Amiga to work in normal graphics mode. ColorBurst gives the impression
that the new graphics modes are an inbuilt part of your Amiga. ColorBurst
connects to the RGB connector and does not tie up any ports. Once installed
there are no switches to set. ColorBurst is available in PAL or NTSC and is
fully GenLock compatible for extremely high quality Broadcast video. No
special monitor is necessary. You can use your standard Amiga monitor!
ColorBurst has 1.5 megabytes of chip memory built in for its own use.
Pictures can be loaded into this memory and use no Amiga chip RAM. Up to four
full screen overscan 24 bit images can be stored in memory.
ColorBurst's Video Coprocessor makes many realtime video special effects
possible, including:
* Continuous scrolling in 24 bits (for video titling and games)
* Dual playfield displays, freely mixing Amiga graphics in front of or behind
ColorBurst graphics. Video priority can be set for every pixel on the
screen, e.g. an apple and an orange could be displayed overlapping side by
side and an Amiga-displayed man could walk in front of the orange and behind
the apple
* Dual 24 bit display - two 24 bit images can be stored in memory and switched
pixel by pixel
* Change graphics modes, priority modes, display modes and palettes on any
scan line
* Double buffering and page flipping
* Explodes, dissolves, wipes in any shape or pattern between ColorBurst, Amiga
and live GenLocked video
Because ColorBurst is true RGB, it is vastly superior in resolution and
picture quality to composite video. For video production you can output in
high quality composite or Y/C video with over 700 lines of resolution, by
using a GenLock or Video modulator. The visual difference between RGB video
and composite video is like the audio difference between Compact Disc and low
quality Audio Cassette. Unlike some composite display cards, a special
attachment is NOT required to use ColorBurst with a GenLock.
ColorBurst picture quality is sharp and clean. Image manipulation and
processing is a lot faster than Hold and Modify (HAM) graphics because each
pixel is purely described by its own 24 bit number, avoiding the bleeding,
dithering, streaking, inaccuracies, and slow processor intensive algorithms
required for HAM picture manipulation. ColorBurst has twice the pixel
resolution and far superior shading to any HAM card available.
Once loaded into Amiga Memory, picture update is instant, allowing fast
realtime image processing and painting in full 24 bits before your eyes.
ColorBurst is capable of continuous double buffered, full overscan, flicker
free 24 bit animation at 20 frames/second or 60 frames/second in 8 bit mode.
ColorBurst can also flip between 4 full overscan 24 bit images at 60
frames/second. Fewer colors can be used to provide up to 96 full screen
animations internal to ColorBurst memory flipped at up to 60 frames per
second.
Some display cards such as the Video Toaster and the Mimetics frame buffer
require you to edit and paint your pictures in a HAM paint program because
they cannot update their pictures fast enough, then you must do a SLOW
transfer and wait before seeing the picture. ColorBurst updates the changes
to your screen instantly so you can paint and image process with 16.8 million
colors in real time! See your results as you go!
All of the display modes are palette-mapped and can be updated at 60
frames/second. This makes many more real time special effects possible.
These include:
* Complex color cycling animations
* 'Smooth as butter' digital fade in/out to any palette or color.
* Solarizing, paint effects, negatives, bÿlor schemes smoothly growing from
one palette to the next.
* Realtime gamma and white balance correction.
ColorBurst is set to become the standard for the Amiga because of its low
cost, universal compatibility, powerful features, very high quality, and
accessibility by the Copper, Blitter and Intuition for Amiga friendly access
to the device.