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From: mkh6317@zeus.tamu.edu (HOWARD, MATTHEW KENDALL)
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Subject: Re: 8/24 GC and New Applications
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Date: 30 May 91 21:46:18 GMT
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In article <858@taniwha.UUCP>, paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell) writes...
>In article <16613@helios.TAMU.EDU> mkh6317@zeus.tamu.edu writes:
>>In order for the 8*24GC card to produce dramatic aceleration the
>>running application must make use of the so call G_world calls.
> 
>Depends on what you mean by 'dramatic'

If you attended the IIfx and GC roll-out or saw the video of it, you
know what I mean.  Two examples especially caught my eye.  A color
version of the diatom line drawing program and dragging a lassoed 
bitmap region in a color (24-bit?) paint-type program.  The crowd, to
a person, gasped "oh-wow".  Thats what I mean by dramatic.

>>Are there ANY presently available programs which support the GC
>>card?  Do we know of any forth-comming programs which will support
>>the GC card?  If not, then the GC is an incredible rip-off.

>Umm, how about: the menu manager in system 7, the standard controls in system 7.

No, as you point out later, menu drawing is fast enough.

> 
>There are a number of programs that use gworlds, mostly they are new high-end 
>color programs, 

Could you name one?

--
The IIfx and GC were introduced at the same time although the GC didn't
actually ship until much later.  I appears though that the benefit of
the GC is still "pie-in-the-sky".  I feel that the roll-out demonstration
must have been horribly misleading.

Matt