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From: mark@calvin..westford.ccur.com (Mark Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: STAR WARS GAME
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Date: 21 Jan 91 14:23:39 GMT
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In article <4727@vela.acs.oakland.edu> hastoerm@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Moriland) writes:
>Well, if the latest issue of .INFO is correct, Commodore is rumored to
>be negotiating for some impressive new chip-set based graphics
>compression technology which could dramatically increase the amount of
>graphics data the Amiga can store and display in realtime.

I would hope and expect that the "chip-set based graphics compression"
refered to is the C-Cube JPEG chip. It is already being used in a 
number of board based designs for the Mac and PC as well as the
NeXT Dimension color board. It is relatively cheap (I believe $75 in
10K quantity) and would make an excellent addition to the Amiga.
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