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From: dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga frame buffers?
Message-ID: <102@boing.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jan 88 17:32:05 GMT
References: <5140@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
Reply-To: dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck)
Organization: Boing, Milpitas, Ca.
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In article <5140@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> rgd059@Mipl3.JPL.Nasa.Gov writes:
>[ Sorry if this has been discussed already, but I'm 600 messages behind.... ]
>
>Does anyone have any info on frame buffers for the Amiga (2000)?  I need
>at least 24 bits/pixel (32 would be nice) color or 8 bits/pixel monochrome.

There are at least 4 projects going on outside of cbm that are working
on various kinds of frame buffers for the amiga. Some of them are just dumb
buffers and some have graphics accelerators. Dates and dollars have not
been speced yet. Some are hires and some are ntsc res with lots of colors.

>
>Also, what about X-windows servers for the frame buffers?
>
The X-windows I am readying should have no problem talking to dumb frame
buffers since the pd code already supports that. I just need to know what
those buffers are going to autoconfig as. X-windows is coming along for
the standard amiga displays.
Dale Luck