Path: utzoo!censor!geac!becker!bdb
From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Better Graphics
Keywords: graphics display
Message-ID: <2170@becker.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jan 90 21:46:45 GMT
References: <343@vixen.uucp>
Reply-To: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario
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In article <343@vixen.uucp> joe@vixen.uucp (Joe Hitchens) writes:
|All this talk about the "Black Belt Video" device and interpereting
|the signals differently to get better results just sounds like the biggest
|kludge ever.
|
|The 2000's have a video slot right?  Why can't someone just make
|a new video board that does 256 color byte-per-pixel "VGA-like" graphics
|that plugs into the slot?  If a new version of the OS is coming out
|soon, isn't the Intuition library all that would need to be changed
|software wise?  The graphics library already supports 8 bitplanes, right?

	C= is currently beta-testing a frame buffer
	designed at the University of Lowell which
	does something of what you want. It displays
	8 bits deep, 1024 by 768 pixels, I believe.
	I saw Amix with X windows on it looking mighty nice...

	However the access to it is parallel to, not
	integrated with, the current display device,
	at least in AmigaDos.

	Hmmm. I know that integrating such things are
	a bear due to the current system definitions,
	but sooner or later C= must bite the bullet in
	some fashion, possibly breaking things in the
	process in terms of upwards compatibility.

	Maybe AmigaDos 2.0 will be bullet-biting time?

Cheers,
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