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From: cstein@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Clifford Stein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Trak-Ball/Parsec Pixel Plus
Message-ID: <462@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 12 Mar 89 03:34:44 GMT
Reply-To: cstein@jarthur.UUCP (Clifford Stein)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA
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I just bought an Atari "Trak-Ball Controller" for my ST in hopes it would
function as a mouse.  It didn't.  When I select Trak-Ball mode, everytime 
I move the ball either left or right, the mouse pointer moves left.  When
I move the ball either up or down, the mouse pointer moves down.  The
proportional speed does seem to work with the mouse pointer, though.  I
have not tried it in the joystick mode yet, but I would assume it does 
function like a joystick.  Does anyone have any ideas on making it work?

I read last summer in _The Games Machine_, a British magazine, an
article about a special graphics board which plugs into the cartridge
port and gives your ST phenomenal graphics.  It was called the Parsec 
Pixel Plus, and was being designed by Elmtech, I think.  It had a
resolution of 1024x1024 and would display 256 colors per raster line,
and had a palette of 16 million colors.  I think it also ran at a speed
of 6.25 MIPS, and would work on all ST's.  Has anyone else heard about
this?  Does anyone know what is happening with its development?

Thanks for any help.

                            -- Cliff Stein

(cstein@jarthur.claremont.edu   cstein@jarthur.UUCP  cstein@hmcvax.BITNET)