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- From: kholland@hydra.unm.edu (Kiernan Holland)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: X-Pert Systems Domino Board
- Message-ID: <p-_ng!_@lynx.unm.edu>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 04:02:06 GMT
- References: <1992Aug16.190713.8054@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <1992Aug18.130350.29501@sarah.albany.edu>
- Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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- In article <1992Aug18.130350.29501@sarah.albany.edu> tw5232@albnyvms.bitnet writes:
- >In article <1992Aug16.190713.8054@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>, rickan@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Mark Rickan) writes:
- >>While I've seen bits of information on this new card, I would appreciate
- >>it if someone with information directly related to this board could post
- >>a summary of what it has to offer, the level of integration with the OS,
- >>and details of any agreements which have been made for North American
- >>distribution.
- >>
- >>Thanks,
- >>
- >>Mark
- >
- >Here are the specs directly from Klaus Burket, the person who OWNS this
- >project. He did not state what Amiga models it is available for. The product
- >is based on the TSENG 4000 chipset (made immensely famous by IBM-compatible
- >S-VGA cards) and supports the following resolutions and colors at the following
- >refresh rates:
- >
- >Resolution 16/256K colors 256/256K colors 32768 colors
- >640x480 72 (60) Hz 72 (60) Hz 72 (60) Hz
- >800x600 72 (60) Hz 72 (60) Hz 60 (60) Hz
- >1024x768 72 (87i) Hz 72 (81i) Hz
- >1152x900 59 Hz
- >1280x1024 87i Hz
- >
- >The values are for a monitor that can take horizontal frequencies up to 57kHz
- >(like the Nec 4D) the values in () for 38kHz (like the Nec 3D), 'i' is for
- >interlace. In addition the author is thinking about supporting Nec 3FG-alikes
- >(48kHz), that'll give 800x600 in 72 Hz and 1024x768 in 60 Hz.
- >
- >HiColor in already incorporated into the setup.
- >
- >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.)
- >
- >Finally cost is 698 DM in Germany which translates to about $450 US...
- >
- >Hope this helps, please send any questions to burket1@kirk.fmi.uni-passau.de
- >
- >Teddy
- >
- > ////////
- > // twang@thor.albany.edu
- > // TWANG@ALBNYVMS.BITNET
- > // eddy Wang TW5232@ALBNYVMS.BITNET
- > // Computer Art and Animation at SUNY Albany
- > New Illusions Albany, NY "Increase the Peace..."
-
- Do you know if they are planning to release it on the American market??
-
- It sounds like the PC cards that I have been looking at, but it costs
- about the same as the PC boards. That's better than what companies
- like Centaur are trying to do. I looked at the specs on thier
- board and it doesn't look nearly as good as what I thought.
- It sounds like all the high-resolution modes on the Opalvision are
- 8-bit and everything else is 15/24 bit. What this board, that
- you are talking about, can do is display 15-bit images in 800x600 as
- well as 640x480, which is a ton better than 24-bit images
- becuase you hardly use more than a few thousand colors and updates
- are faster since you only have to deal with 2/3's the data. It would
- be harder to quantize images from 24-bit to 15-bit, but
- the images would be breathtaking.
-
- The higher resolutions would be neat to. Notice that currently
- the only card that handles resolutions like that is the
- DMI Resolver and CBM's TIGA. DMI resolver (model C, I think)
- costs about 800 bucks, handles only 8-bits in all modes,
- and 1024x768 is the highest resolution (no double-buffering
- unless you buy the two higher-models).
-
- I thought someone would get wise.
-
- I'm not going to buy an Amiga graphics card, until it can
- compare with the PC boards in price range and capability.
- I mean, if they can do it, why doesn't the developers make such
- a thing. I think they just don't want to saturate the Amiga market
- with good hardware. It makes me sick sometimes. What makes real
- sick is that most all the PC's boards are non-interlaced
- while about 80% of the Amiga boards are either NTSC or RGB.
- I want something that doesn't flicker, and you would too, wouldn't you?
-