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- From: yegerleh@cortez.ecn.purdue.edu (James D Yegerlehner)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Falcon info
- Message-ID: <1992Jul25.232231.16870@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: 25 Jul 92 23:22:31 GMT
- References: <1992Jul24.143614.15665@fwi.uva.nl>
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- Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
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- In article <1992Jul24.143614.15665@fwi.uva.nl>, kort@fwi.uva.nl (Jan Kort (I89)) writes:
- > Hardware:
- > 16 MHz MC68030
- > 32 MHz Motorola 56001 DSP-chip
- > 1,4 or 16 MegaByte (No simms ...)
-
- [stuff deleted]
- >
- > Resolutions:
- > Mode Resolution Bitplns colors pallette
- > ST Low-res 320x200 4 16 4096
- > ST Med-res 640x200 2 4 4096
- > ST High-res 640x400 1 2 4096
- > 640x480 8 256 262.144
- > true color 320x200 15 32768 --
- > VGA/VIDEO x:320 or 640 1,4, 2,16, (overscan select)
- > y:200 or 400 8 256 262.144
-
- Hmm, what exactly does the overscan select mean? Is this really
- going to have a max resolution of 640x480? I had heard earlier rumors
- of 800x600. This is very bad news if 640x480 is as good as it gets.
-
- > P.S. I got all this information from a magazine called "atari st nieuws"
- > edition 50/51. There's lots more info in the article (especially about the
- > DSP ). I'm not gonna type all that stuff though :)
-
- Could someone possibly check up on the video resolution?
-
- >
- > Jan Kort
- > kort@fwi.uva.nl
-