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From: hastoerm@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Moriland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: STAR WARS GAME
Message-ID: <4774@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
Date: 21 Jan 91 23:51:21 GMT
References: <11061@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <2460@meaddata.meaddata.com> <61623@masscomp.ccur.com> <11288@helios.TAMU.EDU> <61633@masscomp.ccur.com> <4727@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <61641@masscomp.ccur.com>
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In article <61641@masscomp.ccur.com> mark@calvin.westford.ccur.com (Mark Thompson) writes:
: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.

We can only pray and hope. ;-)

					--Moriland



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