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From: ewout@topcat.commodore.com (Ewout Walraven)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future
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Date: 5 Jun 91 16:08:00 GMT
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es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:

>In article <1991Jun4.003619.3661@news.iastate.edu> taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu writes:
>>
>>   The ECS isn't going to do much for the Amiga, either, because it was
>>obsolete before it even went into production.  The ECS is also 98% 
>>identical to the very oldest Amiga chipset.  
>>   
>	The main thing is Productivity mode, but since the price
>of flicker fixers have dropped so dramatically it doesn't seem so
>important. However it will be free 640x400 non interlaced.

The main thing of ECS are programmable resolution (including PAL & NTSC
videomodes) & the new genlock possibilities: keying on any color register,
keying on any bitplane of the genlocked viewport, per viewport genlock
settings, programmable border transparency. Productivity mode in itself
isn't going to shake the earth.

>	-- Ethan

>Now the world has gone to bed,		Now I lay me down to sleep,
>Darkness won't engulf my head,		Try to count electric sheep,
>I can see by infrared,			Sweet dream wishes you can keep,
>How I hate the night.			How I hate the night.   -- Marvin