Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!cunixa.cc.columbia.edu!es1 From: es1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) Subject: Re: CDTV News Message-ID: <1991Jul1.014529.11199@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Sender: usenet@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (The Network News) Nntp-Posting-Host: cunixa.cc.columbia.edu Reply-To: es1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) Organization: Columbia University References: <1991Jun30.205817.4347@news.iastate.edu> <1991Jun30.223505.16971@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1991Jun30.232109.6446@news.iastate.edu> Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1991 01:45:29 GMT In article <1991Jun30.232109.6446@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Barrett Marc N) writes: > In order for it to be used in a new CDTV, it had better be cheap. >Commodore has to get a decent chipset into that thing as soon as possible, >so that Commodore can make the CDTV fully compatible with CD-I. I also >want the A500 to finally get improved capabilities as well, using the >same improved chipset that should go into CDTV. Did you realize that >there are now dedicated game machines with color capabilities better than >the CDTV, A500, and A3000? > Let me get this straight: you want (as you said in the part I cut, sorry) four blitters and 640x400 with 24 bit planes of resolution. Now you say you want this cheap, cheap enough to be put in a (well priced) CDTV. I know it for certain now. You are TRULY nuts. You keep harping back to CD-I and its wonderful DYUV graphics mode (or whatever that wierd mode is 8). Now, a question: You can show still images, or precomputed (digitized) anims, but can you interactively write to it, in the sense of doing a game with it? Kinda like the problems with DCTV. The code to work with it in the sense of a game must be VERY convoluted. >>Do you want DIG >>with high end RISC boards? > > No I don't. For now, I am more concerned with the low-end. I don't >like there being dedicated game systems with color capabilities vastly >better than the A500 and CDTV. Both systems need a new chipset FAST. > Then what are you harping about 24 bit planes for? 24 bit palette, yes. 24 bit planes? For a game machine? -- Ethan FF buckets of bits on the bus, FF buckets of bits. Take one down, Short it to ground, FE buckets of bits on the bus.