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- From: tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran)
- Subject: Re: Merlin graphics card by XPert
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.205218.24958@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA>
- Organization: Brock University, St. Catharines Ontario
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 20:52:18 GMT
- Lines: 40
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- In article <1igtrhINNns8@fbi-news.Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE> balzer@heike.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Michael Balzer) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- Sounds good to me.
-
- >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.
-
- Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.
-
- >The board sends out the video signal through FBAS, RGB and Y-C (S-VHS)
- >and is programmable to support PAL/NTSC video timing.
-
- Nice.
-
- >OPTIONS: Realtime 24 bit digitizer (inputs: RGB, Y-C and FBAS) with
- >realtime PIP on Workbench (a 24 bit TV window on your 72 Hz Workbench,
- >this clearly points to the /W32), and a digital genlock (24 bit as well).
-
- Wow.
-
- >Merlin 1MB: 600,- DM, 2MB: 700,- DM, 4MB: 850,- DM.
- >Digitizer: 600,- DM, Genlock: 600,- DM, Both Digit+Genl: 800,- DM
-
- >They say, Intuition can use up to 256 colors on the card under 3.0,
- >2.x will probably allow only 16 colors in plane mode and 1.x is
- >not supported.
-
- Can we infer from this that the graphics library is then 68040
- compatible?
-
- One caveat: when is someone going to pick this up for North American
- distribution?
-
-