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From: neil@celia.UUCP (Neil Richmond)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: 24bit display questions
Message-ID: <1077@celia.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jun 91 17:59:43 GMT
References: <1991Jun21.002446.3856@menudo.uh.edu> <1991Jun21.134816.10190@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Reply-To: celia!neil@usc.edu (Neil Richmond)
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I am not I understand the Colorburst device. It claims to be a true 24-bit
display device with 1.5 megs onboard, yet the signal comes through the
RGB port. I was not aware that data could be passed through the RGB port.
Is this possible? If it is, it is not bi-directional, right? DCTV seems to
be a decoder, with the display memory being in the Amiga. This makes sense.
The Colorburst does not. Is there a way to get the data from the Colorburst
into the Amiga? Would it use the parallel port like DCTV? I have worked in
computer graphics for years, but until recently I have never seen such a
strange, yet ingenious assortment of frame buffers as the ones available 
for the Amiga. I it's what you get when you have graphics so tightly coupled 
to a system. I guess it is whatever works.:-)

neil

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