Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!uwvax!puff!avery
From: avery@puff.cs.wisc.edu (Aaron Avery)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: More colors from the Amiga
Message-ID: <1517@puff.cs.wisc.edu>
Date: 29 Mar 88 12:14:48 GMT
References: <2168@polya.STANFORD.EDU> <46959@sun.uucp>
Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept
Lines: 16
Summary: Not really...

In article <46959@sun.uucp>, cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) writes:
> 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! :-)

Actually, that's not a pain, since each Amiga is only displaying one bitplane.
ScrollRaster() only has problems because it scrolls one plane at a time. 
Since the three machines are genlocked, you merely synchronize the ScrollRaster
calls via WaitTOF(), and instant no flashing scrolling! The specifics regarding
the interCOMPUTER communication would probably be a bit rough.

Aaron Avery (avery@puff.cs.wisc.edu)
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