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From: cpmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Matthew W Crowd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: SVGA emulation with 24 bit boards
Message-ID: <1991Apr9.232059.9004@marlin.jcu.edu.au>
Date: 9 Apr 91 23:20:59 GMT
References: <1991Apr8.220628.26119@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> <1991Apr9.165826.21137@news.iastate.edu> <1991Apr9.182934.10786@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
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In article <1991Apr9.182934.10786@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> rjc@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes:
>In article <1991Apr9.165826.21137@news.iastate.edu> xgr39@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU writes:
>>In article <1991Apr8.220628.26119@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>, drtiller@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Donald Richard Tillery Jr) writes:
>>>I figure someone else has already thought of this (great minds think alike ;-),
>>>but I'm wondering how feasable it would be to write handlers for all the
>>>24 bit and pseudo-24 bit boards so that IBM (and other computer) emulators
>OB>>could use them to emulate SVGA (or equivalent on other platforms) cards.  If
>>>the emulators used standard library calls and the appropriate library was
>>>used for the particular device (ColorBurst, FireCracker, Toaster, DCTV, HAM-E,
>>>Harlequin, etc.), wouldn't that give a reasonable emulation (speed not with-
>>>standing) of those graphics boards?  Just a thought to bandy about for the
>>>bridgeboards, IBeM, AMAX, and other emulators.
>>
>>   Several months ago, I brought up the idea of enhancing the Janus 
>>software to allow the A2410 to emulate an SVGA card whenever the A2410
>>is used on an Amiga in conjunction with a BridgeBoard.  This would 
>>allow the A2410 to be used for more than just UNIX.  Unfortunately,
>>I have know idea whether or not Commodore is working on this because
>>they are obviously not talking.
>
>  Do you think Commodore would tell you even if they were? Especially
>you Marc, because you'd condemn any of their new projects even before
>they hit the market as being inadequate. Even if Commodore made some
>super duper 32 bit chipset, you'd fine something missing from it.
>'Hey, I thought C= was supposed to include a Silicon Graphics emulator
>on the new custom chips. Commodore is doomed, blah...'

Why don't you lay off him, man. 

All his points are quite valid. If there wasn't one of us to speak up
for all the problems C= cause, we would get nowhere.

>
>>   I do not think any of the other video products would be very 
>>satisfactory in emulating an SVGA card.  The reason is that all of the
>                                                             ^^^
>big generalization wouldn't you say?
>>graphics-enhancement boards available for the Amiga -- except for the
>>A2410 -- flicker horribly.  SVGA cards are not used for video work,
>>so to emulate one requires a flicker-free display, with none of these
>>video cards offer.
>
>  If SVGA is not used to video work, than what's the point? What's the

Ever seen a 1280x1024 NON-Interlaced Lotus-1-2-3 Spreadsheet ? I thought not.

>>>
>>>Rick Tillery (drtiller@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu)
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matt (even with a deinterlacer i still have flicker) crowd.