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From: dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Frame Buffers
Message-ID: <885@boing.UUCP>
Date: 9 Oct 89 15:04:53 GMT
References: <438@crash.cts.com> <10853@dasys1.UUCP> <1368@mcrware.UUCP> <35041@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>
Reply-To: dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck)
Organization: Boing, Milpitas, Ca.
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In article <35041@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> jac@muslix.UUCP (James Crotinger) writes:
>
>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.

Any statements made about the graphics library supporting the ulowell
board are pure speculation. Whether it they indicate support or indicate
no plans for support.
board whether 

>(There was a hint that a version of X might be written to work with the board).

We plan on supporting the frame buffer board in a future release of X11 for
the Amiga. There is actual work being done to achieve that already in
progress. ETA? probably 2nd quarter 1990, after the release of native color
X11 for the Amiga.

For those that are interested, X11 release 3.0 is now shipping for the Amiga.

-- 
Dale Luck     GfxBase/Boing, Inc.
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