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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
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Subject: Re: CD-I emulator
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Date: 13 Jun 91 22:10:11 GMT
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In article <1991Jun13.121935.25554@ncsu.edu> kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) writes:
>
>I do want to thank you for a perfect opening question tho.  It _was_ very
>tempting to ask you how a CDTV player could possibly emulate even a simple
>CD-I case of a 100-color animation overlaid on a 170,000 color photograph,
>with hardware transparency effects.  Ooops.  Sorry!  Like Dr Strangelove,
>I just couldn't help it :-) :-)    best - kevin <kdarling@catt.ncsu.edu>

	I'm sure that the CD-I specs, as well as the chips
involved, are available to Commodore. One thing CBM may be
considering doing is making MPEG and CD-I compatible graphics
chips as the next-generation Amiga chipset. Then they could run
CD-I emulation, as well as have a graphics chip set to lead them
for 2-3 more years (assuming it were out now 8).
	Well, it's an idea, don't know if there are any thoughts
about it at West Chester.
	-- 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