Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-crg!rutgers!sri-spam!sri-unix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!burdvax!bpa!cbmvax!daveh From: daveh@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Dave Haynie) Newsgroups: net.micro.apple Subject: Re: Apple //gs Message-ID: <843@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Oct-86 15:20:50 EDT Article-I.D.: cbmvax.843 Posted: Mon Oct 6 15:20:50 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Oct-86 01:03:56 EDT References: <2073@ecsvax.UUCP> Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 49 > > The speed is a little disappointing (2.8 mhz) considering that 4 and 6 > mhz versions of the 65816 are available. Nope. GTE has just recently started making production quantities of the 4MHz part available, which is undoubtedly what Apple is using. You might be able to hand pick a few that'd run at 6MHz, if you had enough 4MHz parts, but there's no production parts near that speed. > One thing I noticed about the motherboard was that the graphics chip was > one of the few socketed chips on the board, looks like Apple is planning > for future expansion in the graphics area. A more common reason for socketing a chip is some kind of trouble with that chip that would require production line or field replacement. > Deluxe Paint from Electronic Arts will be available soon for the machine, > with all of the features of the Amiga version plus the ability to do 3-D > drawings and rotations. If the 3-D object manipulations are built into > the graphics chip, it will have some powerful capabilities. See this month's BYTE for details on the display chip. No 3-D stuff. The version of DPaint will be like that on the Amiga, but of course only permit 16 colors in lo-res, 4 colors in med-res, and no hi-res mode. It could have some 3-D stuff; the next revision of DPaint for the Amiga is rumored to have some of this capability. > File formats for the //gs are standardized so that any software can > use another's images. Is this an Apple standard, or DPaint. They could be using the IFF standard developed by EA and Commodore-Amiga; this would let the IIGS DPaint display most Amiga images, and vias-versa. > Anybody else have anthing to add or corrections? The rest looked pretty good. The sound chip should be very good; its currently in a production Ensoniq keyboard-synthesizer. > Rick Fincher > > ranger@ecsvax > Rick@ncsuvm -- ============================================================================ Dave Haynie {caip,ihnp4,allegra,seismo}!cbmvax!daveh These opinions are my own, though if you try them out, and decide that you really like them, a small donation would be appreciated.