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From: amc@ai.wustl.edu (Adam M. Costello)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: graphics
Keywords: frame buffer grabber
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Date: 1 Sep 90 19:08:20 GMT
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What exactly is a frame buffer?
What exactly is a frame grabber?
What would you call a card that gives the Amiga graphics capabilities
equivalent to those it already has, except with 24 bits/pixel?
The Macintosh has the Display Card 8*24, which provides a 640x480 24bits/pixel
graphics screen.  It lists at $899, but is being sold at the Wash U computer
store for $599.  There is also the 8*24 GC (I assume GC stands for graphics
coprocessor) for $1999 list, to be sold for $1350 at the campus store.  I don't
like Macs; in fact I have an Amiga 3000 on the way via the Ed. Disc. Plan.
Are there (or will there soon be) graphics card for the Amiga comparable to or
better than those for the Mac, and about how much do (will) they cost?
Thanks,
AMC