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- From: tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Merlin graphics card by XPert
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.165252.2504@enea.se>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 16:52:52 GMT
- References: <1igtrhINNns8@fbi-news.Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE>
- Organization: Enea Data AB
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- balzer@heike.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Michael Balzer) writes:
- : Hi there,
- :
- : some people have asked me for some more information on the
- : "Merlin" graphics card by XPert. I am in no way related to
- : XPert and can only tell you, what they tell me about this
- : project.
- :
- : They say, Merlin will have a blitter on board, that does bit blitting,
- : line drawing and area filling with up to 50 MPixel/sec. [I'd like to
- : comment, that if the card is based on the ET4000/W32, this chip
- : can't do free angular line draws or automatic filling into free
- : form areas, only rectangular operations are supported. So either
- : XPert lies once again, or they won't use the /W32.]
-
- Do they have a history of non-fulfilled promises?
-
- : Merlin shall support up to 1280 x 1024 in 24 bit, up to 2048 x 2048
- : in 8 bit, and a maximum of 120 Hz picture frequency. [Of course not
- : 1280x1024x24x120, they say 1280x1024x24 will be possible with up to
- : 60 Hz interlaced.] 16 bit is also supported, but I don't know up
- : to which resolution.
- :
- : A very interesting feature is the automatic bus recognition, in
- : Zorro-II, it will work with 16bit & 3MB/sec, in Zorro-III it
- : will do up to more than 20 MB/sec in 32 bit.
-
- Isn't this what every Zorro-III card is supposed to do, a ZorroII
- fallback mode? (I'm just asking)
-
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- Tommy Petersson tope@enea.se Enea Data AB, Sweden
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