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From: grr@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Future Amiga Video
Message-ID: <1735@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 25-Apr-87 14:48:32 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.1735
Posted: Sat Apr 25 14:48:32 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 26-Apr-87 21:18:50 EDT
References: <10726@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> <1964@hoptoad.uucp>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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Keywords: VGA Killer graphics

In article <63@dalcsug.UUCP> philip@dalcsug.UUCP (Peter Philip) writes:
>
>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?

The video slot is primarily intended to allow implementation of an internal
Genlock peripheral.  It can also used to mount a composite video/RF modulator
board.

The slot provides the same kind of signals present on the video connector
and the audio connectors.  It would possible to come up with a more advanced
audio/visual board, however if a lot of control/data transfer is needed you
would need to cross connect to a board on the normal expansion bus.

>                 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.

This general capability is already present and is used to switch between NTSC
and PAL display formats in a software sense.  It would need to be expanded
a bit for radical display formats.
-- 
George Robbins - now working for,	uucp: {ihnp4|seismo|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr
but no way officially representing	arpa: cbmvax!grr@seismo.css.GOV
Commodore, Engineering Department	fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)