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From: arutherf@ucs.adelaide.edu.au (Andrew Rutherford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Amiga 3000UX graphics
Keywords: TIGA, fast, 24bit
Message-ID: <1861@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au>
Date: 16 Nov 90 06:36:43 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Division, The University of Adelaide, AUSTRALIA
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I have noticed many people commenting on advertised multi-colour graphics
  screens on UNIX but only getting black & white in demo machines. Well, approx
  a month back I went to a demo here in South Australia, and was told there was
  a 24bit TIGA (Texas Instruments Graphics Architecture) board that had
  unfortunatly just been taken back to Sydney (great move, just before the
  official SA demo in front of half the systems people from Adelaide Uni.. I
  think they've all gone of the Amy now :-( ). Anyway, the flyer says the
  following:

2410 High Resolution Colour Graphics Card

This is a high resolution colour graphics card, for the Commodore Amiga 2000 and
3000 computers. This graphics card is based on a Texas Instruments Graphics
Architecture (TIGA) processor. The card couples the graphics system processor
with frame buffer and program/data memory, a palette chip and DMA circuit for
high speed data transfer between the graphics card and the AMiga. This card
works with the 1950 Monitor and XWindows under Unix. No AmigaDOS drivers are
supplied at this time.

Note it doesn't specify resolution or depth, but we were told 24 bits.
It only works with Amiga UNIX at this time.
The fact that it has a number and the C= rep's said they had it indicates it's
  not vapourware, but was in short supply a month back.

Hope this helps,
		Andrew.

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