home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Xref: sparky comp.sys.amiga.graphics:5653 comp.sys.amiga.advocacy:21792
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!torn!maccs!rickan
- From: rickan@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Mark Rickan)
- Subject: Re: X-Pert Systems Domino Board
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.002700.5915@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, McMaster University
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 00:27:00 GMT
- Lines: 43
-
- In article <1992Aug18.130350.29501@sarah.albany.edu> tw5232@albnyvms.bitnet
- writes:
-
- >Here are the specs directly from Klaus Burket, the person who OWNS this
- >project...
-
- [..]
-
- >The product is based on the TSENG 4000 chipset (made immensely famous by
- >IBM-compatible S-VGA cards)
-
- Interesting choice of processor. Does anyone happen to have any information
- concerning the relative performance of the TSENG chipset to the current
- alternatives?
-
- >HiColor in already incorporated into the setup.
-
- Nice.
-
- >The important graphics.library calls are patched to work on the board and
- >they've built the board to appear mostly like the native chipset in terms of
- >bitplanes, only bigger... (at least it's not copying graphics info from chip
- >ram.)
-
- It will be interesting to see exactly how well this compatibility is integrated
- into the OS.
-
- >Finally cost is 698 DM in Germany which translates to about $450 US...
-
- This is quite really quite reasonable, considering the fact that the market
- and number of developers in this area has traditionally been quite limited.
-
- >Hope this helps, please send any questions to burket1@kirk.fmi.uni-passau.de
-
- Thanks!
-
- Mark
-
- --
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
- = Mark Rickan ...!uunet!utai!utgpu!maccs!rickan =
- = DCSS, McMaster University rickan@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca =
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
-