Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!sco!brianm From: brianm (Brian Moffet) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Simple Frame Buffer boards Message-ID: Date: 6 Dec 90 20:57:16 GMT References: <916@boing.UUCP> Sender: news@sco.COM Lines: 33 dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck) writes: >Is anyone doing a simple frame buffer board with VRAM >to drive a reasonable resolution monitor with at least >256 colors and a direct memory mapped raster? On the >A3000 it could even be accessed 32 bits at a time to >double the speed of operations. Or, as I would like to see, but don't have adequate knowledge to do myself, is a frame buffer which will support 640 x 400 interlaced with > 256 colors (non-ham). This would not necessarily be used for animation, but would be just be this board which I could hook up to my ami 1000. It would put out analog RGB at 15... Mghz so that I could hook it up to my existing amiga monitor, or to a Genlock. It would not be accessable by the special chips, it would just be this memory that could be displayed... 24 bits would be nice :-) Oh, some really useful information, the Black Belt HAM-E box will not necessarily work with an Amiga, if that Amiga has an accelerator board in it. My ami 1000 with a CSA Midget Racer won't work. I am currently talking to Black Belt to see what I can do to get it to work. I may send them the MidgetRacer to see if they can do something. They have been quite helpful. brian moffet