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From: murphy@pur-phy (William J. Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Proliferation of graphics modes
Message-ID: <2998@pur-phy>
Date: 17 Jan 90 16:45:46 GMT
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Reply-To: murphy@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (William J. Murphy)
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In article <3596@hub.UUCP> dougp@voodoo.ucsb.edu writes:
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>There is a way to get 4096 colors on screen at once with no limitations
>in high res.
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>It requires a hacked up video cable, three Amigas, and two genlock, but
>some people already have that :->
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>The Idea is to use the one Amiga without a genlock as a master, and use
>the other two synced to the first Amigas video (via their genlocks) as
>slaves.

WOW, WHAT A CONCEPT!  Maybe we can get Black Belt Video to do this.  Take
3 or 4 Amigas and hook them together so that the RGB signal from the first
3 gives you 36 bit color which is displayed on the monitor of the 4th Amiga.
Then we could link them together via network and use AREXX to do the 
communications between the 4 paint programs which are running to display
a single picture.  How much do you think this would cost?  probably
$2000 plus the price of your favorite model/flavor of Amiga. 3 A500s, 3 cables,
one mixer box would probably be able to do it.

Naahh.... I think I will wait for an A3000.  If it doesn't significantly improve
the graphics, then I may have to look elsewhere for my NeXT computer. 8^)


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 Bill Murphy        murphy@newton.physics.purdue.edu