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From: jac@muslix.llnl.gov (James Crotinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Frame Buffers
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Date: 5 Oct 89 18:14:43 GMT
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  Well, I don't have the original posting handy, but I'm pretty sure that
there were TWO boards announced. One was a frame buffer, which I believe
was supposed to have 24 bit color. The other was the ULowell graphics
board, which has 8 bit color and a TI34010 graphics chip, supporting
resolutions up to 1024x1024. 

  I'm particularly interested in the latter card. Does anyone know what
the status is? At a AMIX demo last year, Dave Haynie said that Commodore
did not intend to port the graphic library to work with this board, which
would make it sort of a special purpose board that applications would
be have to be explicitly written for. (There was a hint that a version
of X might be written to work with the board). Does anyone know if Commodore
has reconsidered this position? I realize that it would be impossible
(probably) to provide complete compatibility with the graphics library,
but a level of compatibility could be achieved which would allow most
programs to run on the ULowell card. Please! (grovel, beg, ...).

  Jim