Subject: Imitating the DPS-PAR ??
Date: 	Thu, 19 May 1994 00:05:26 +0200
From: Hannes Heckner <hecknerh@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>

Hi,

I just had an idea for imitating a DPS PAR with a normal Amiga
setup including a DCTV device.

DCTV pictures with 3 bitplanes are usually no more bigger than
jpegged true-color pix. So using a DCTV could partly substitute
a PAR device.
The problem is playing off the harddisk.

Now my idea:
Would it be possible to programm a device for the Amiga that
uses a harddisk on its raw-format ignoring any file-systems on
it. This harddisk could then only be used as a animation device,.
but so is the harddisk for the DPS PAR.
This device should be capable of writing sequentially DCTV pix
data on the outer tracks of the harddisk. Then it should be
capable of reading in the sequential stream of DCTV pix
in realtime off the harddsik and send it directly to the DCTV
framebuffer. 
I think one could gain a lot of performance out of a harddisk
when ignoring any file-system stuff.

Your opinions?
Hannes



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