Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!mephisto!udel!mmdf From: BARRETT@owl.ecil.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga Video Mess (was RE: More Marc...) Message-ID: <30658@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Date: 17 Sep 90 05:57:27 GMT Sender: mmdf@ee.udel.edu Lines: 37 In article <37262@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Greg Hrap writes: >In article <30633@nigel.ee.udel.edu> BARRETT@owl.ecil.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) writes: > >> To solve this situation, Commodore absolutely must do one of two thing. >>They have to either produce an improved chipset with competitive color >>capabilities, or they have to improve the O.S. so that it incorporates >>device-independent video similar to the MAC. Unfortunately, I don't see >>either of these two solutions materializing for a long, long, long time. > >Hmmm....you mean like monitor drivers? Seen 2.0? No I figure you've spent >too much time flaming Amigas to know anything about them... I know about the monitor drivers. But my impression of them was that they only allowed video cards to work that weren't too radically different from the standard Amiga video. Otherwise, why don't the HAM-E, DCTV, or U-Lowell video products work with Amiga programs simply by using a monitor driver? The answer is that there is more to getting a video product to work with Amiga programs than using a monitor driver. I sincerely hope I'm wrong, though, as I would like to be able to use products like the DCTV, HAM-E, or others with standard Amiga programs. But I don't think I am wrong. Otherwise, why would Commodore only develop the U-Lowell board as for Amiga UNIX, and say that it is not useable as an AmigaOS product? If all you had to do to get such products to work with existing programs was include a monitor driver, than Commodore would just throw in such a driver and sell it to people who want a high- resolution video card with lots of colors for CAD and DTP programs. But that isn't what is happening. I would like to see more video products like the U-Lowell card, which offer increased resolution and color capability along with a non-interlaced display, for those applications that don't require NTSC-compatible video. -MB-