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From: ramsiri@blake.u.washington.edu (Enartloc Nhoj)
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Subject: LEXICOR, Atari TT/030, Video Toaster
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Date: 2 Mar 91 17:09:02 GMT
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March 2/91
Here are some follow up questions i had for Lee Seiler at
LEXICOR:

1).  How many colors on screen and what is resolution with your
      24-bit color board and Atari 1224 on an ST?
     
	** With 2megs of RAM, 16 million, 256 on screen, 512x512
       FULL SCREEN  "virtual screen".. NOT overscan.
       
		LEXICOR will be supporting 4 boards:
			MATRIX
			LEXICOR
			ICD 
			ISAC 

2).  WIll the Gadgets SST 030 board work with LEXICOR.?
    
     ** As far as I know it does.  

3).  A few people from the Amiga groups figured you must be
     using a "$50 monitor" on the Amiga 3000 when you made
     comparisons between the TT display and the A3000 display.
     What monitor did you use on the A3000?
     
     ** Nanow flexscan $1600 monitor.  I have the amiga and TT 
        hooked up to the same monitor.
        The TT display is much more dramatic and purer
        than interlace on amiga... the overscan on the amiga
        gives you a shredded looking edge.

4).  Can you import DynaCADD drawings and render/animate them
     with LEXICOR to do architectural walkthroughs?
    
     ** Of course!   

5).  The Amiga is a great graphics machine... particulalry when you
     have vendors like NewTek putting out the Video Toaster.  
     Anything like that going to happen for the TT?

	 ** There will be a direct marriage of Video Toaster with TT 
      put out by reputable company THIS YEAR.

	Really?  Some people buy the Amiga FOR the Toaster.

	** Definitely!  You will definitely see the Video Toaster on the
      TT this year.  NewTek wants the ATARI market.

6).  I am still impressed with my 8mhz 1040ST upgraded to 4MB RAM.
     There is some software for the ST that really makes this box
     seem like a lot more machine.  My guess is that the TT
     must be an excellent system.

     ** It is wonderful!  

     Atari already has a strong hold in the music market.  
     If ATARI supports you guys in your graphics
     development, I should think LEXICOR and others that follow 
     you will help make ATARI more competetive in the US.  Is ATARI
     supportive of your efforts?

    ** ATARI just now made the decision to get into professional 
      animation and DTP.  People at ATARI are vey helpful, and
      contrary to a lot of people's claim that they don't care,
      ATARI people DO care and are trying very hard to provide great
      products at affordable prices.