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From: philip@dalcsug.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Future Amiga Video
Message-ID: <63@dalcsug.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 16-Apr-87 15:26:48 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 16 15:26:48 1987
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Reply-To: philip@dalcsug.UUCP (Peter Philip)
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., Canada
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Keywords: VGA Killer graphics

In article <1673@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes:
>Anybody who has some neat ideas should suggest them now, but please be sure
>to consider all the system implications, including memory bandwidth, hardware
>compatibility, software compatibility and incremental cost.  At least that's
>what we have to do at this end...

What new boards are being planned for the 2000's video slot?  Is it possible
to plug in a ultra-hi-res-lotsa-colours board into this slot and could it
be done on a 1000?  It would be real nice if the system could have information
on the current maximums of screen height,width and depth so that the program
could check what those values were and varry its output accordingly.
That way a cad program written today that uses 640x400x16 could use 
1024x1024x256 when(if) that becomes available without having to do a revision.

If you want a wish list ... 6 planes in 640x400 (HAM) and 5 in normal
mode (640x400x32).  And whatever you do - leave in an option for interlace,
desktop video is not a market that commodore can ignore! 

Peter Philip
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia