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From: mark@calvin..westford.ccur.com (Mark Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Colorburst board?
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Date: 13 Feb 91 21:04:41 GMT
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In article <21934@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt4662b@prism.gatech.EDU (BRANHAM,JOSEPH FRANKLIN) writes:
>I saw a spec sheet on colorburst, and based on my memory of it have some idea
>about what they are doing.
>1) The device has 1 Meg of memory on board.
>2) It is a TRUE 24-bit framebuffer that only plugs into the RGB port and spits
>out NTSC RGB.
>3) It can animate 24-bit frames at up to 20 frames/second, and 256-color anims
>at 60 frames/second.

Sounds like MAST marketing hogwash to me. 24bit RGB NTSC at 20 frames per/sec
is roughly 20MB/sec. I don't think so (or I'll believe it when I see it).
With a max memory configuration of 8MB, just what are you going to animate
with only 8 frames? If the ColorBurst lives up to its basic claims, it
will be a great product for a comfortably low price. But claims of 24bit
animation seem ridiculous.
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