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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: More colors from the Amiga
Message-ID: <46959@sun.uucp>
Date: 25 Mar 88 02:16:19 GMT
References: <2168@polya.STANFORD.EDU>
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In article <2168@polya.STANFORD.EDU> (Tomas G. Rokicki) writes:
->And this was the result.  I want to plug a 500 into a slot on my 2000!
->Well, a small 500.  Synchronized with the 2000.  Communicating somehow.
->With some better NTSC stuff onboard, and larger DAC's, to give me more
->colors, two blitters, and other great stuff.  Just for better broadcast
->quality and more colors.  Nah, wouldn't work.  I'm outta here.

But it does work sort of. You rackmount three Amiga 500's and let each
one produce a color, in 32 color mode using they're monochrome out
lines you can display 32,768 colors simultaneously. And each color
plane has it's own blitter! Build a Sync generator, genlock all three
and then run their outputs to an RGB monitor. Simple no? Keeping 
ScrollRaster() from flashing though is a real pain! :-)




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