Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!jarthur!cstein From: cstein@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Clifford M. Stein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: New Graphics board for ST Message-ID: <2045@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> Date: 21 Sep 89 20:19:47 GMT References: <1989Sep21.074352.1066@paris.ics.uci.edu> Reply-To: cstein@jarthur.UUCP (Clifford M. Stein) Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA Lines: 38 In article <1989Sep21.074352.1066@paris.ics.uci.edu> jvance@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Joachim Vance) writes: > > Does anyone know any information about the new graphics board for the >ST. I heard very little information about it. It called the Parsec? or >something similar and I guess it's basically a small graphics computer >that uses the ST as a host. It can produce resolutions up to 1028 x 728 >and pull colors from a pallette of over 4000. But what sounded impressive >to me was that you could expand this to 128K colors on the screen at a time >from a palette of over 4 million! > > Can sombody confirm or deny this and if it is true post more info. >I sure want to know more about something this good. > >Joachim >jvance@bonnie.ics.uci.edu >or >jvance%bonnie@orion.cf.uci.edu Yeah, I remember reading about the Parsec Pixel+ by Elmtech Research over a year ago in _The Games Machine_ magazine, August '88. Over the summer, I saw the August '89 issue and they said they WOULD have an article about the board in their Spetember '89 issue. (all last year they kept saying they'd have a review NEXT month) From what I read last year, Elmtech was going to release three boards. One would be a color board with nice resolution and 4096 colors, I think. The second, the Parserc Pixel+ would have a resolution of 1024x1024, 8 bit planes, and palette of 16+ million colors. The last board was just a monochrome board with nice resolution. All three operated at 6.25 MIPS, and would plug in through the cartridge port. If anyone has the Sept '89 issue of _The Games Machine_, please post us a summary of the article. Cliff cstein@jarthur.claremont.EDU cstein@hmcvax.BITNET