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From: blgardne@esunix.UUCP (Blaine Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Agnus & Denise's prettier sisters
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Date: 28 Mar 88 04:51:57 GMT
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Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
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Keywords: gimme, gimme, gimme!

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Now that the new Agnus and Denise chips have been comfirmed by C-A, can
we get some more facts on them?

The big question that has been raised by a local hardware guru is: do
the new chips trade colors for interlace, due to bandwidth limits? His
comment was that the new non-interlace mode would probably be limited to
16 colors at 320x400 and 8 colors at 640x400. Is this true for the new
chips, or do they have full color output in non-interlace?

Someone else commented that 1.4 will be required to support the
non-interlace modes. Is this true? How far off is 1.4? (Sheesh, 1.3 isn't
here yet, and he's already asking about 1.4! :-)

I assume that a multisync type monitor will be required for the
non-interlace mode. What happens when Joe Q. Public kicks it into
non-interlace mode on his 1080 monitor? Smoke 'n fire from the Amiga,
the monitor, both? Or is there any idiot-proofing here?

Are the new chips going to be a package deal as an official upgrade, or
will this be a "do it yourself" upgrade like adding EHB to a lesser A1000?

And of course the big questions: How soon? How much?   (Ditto on the A2620.)


You know if you guys keep coming up with new goodies like this, I'll never
have any spare cash! After Dave Haynie's description on the A2620, I'd buy
one today if I could. (Hint, hint! :-)
-- 
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