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From: golden@cps3xx.UUCP (golden james)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: High-res Graphics Board for Amy (1024x1024x256 colors)
Summary: Specs
Message-ID: <3060@cps3xx.UUCP>
Date: 20 May 89 04:56:54 GMT
References: <648@corpane.UUCP>
Reply-To: golden@cps3xx.UUCP (golden james)
Organization: Engineering, Michigan State Univ., E. Lansing
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In article <648@corpane.UUCP> sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) writes:
>I just received the latest issue of Amiga Transactor and it hint's of a 
>press release that tells of a new board coming out for the Amiga that
>will have a resolution of 1024 x 1024 and 256 colors.
>1> Anyone know  *anything* about this? if so, what?

We received the press release at our dealership about a month ago (I had
wondered why no one was talking about the board!)  Here's what it said:

-- Commodore AMIGA High Resolution Color Graphics Card --
The High Resolution Color graphics Card allows the AMIGA to render
graphics with more colors, resolution, and graphics power then
previously possible.  The card has the following features:

*  Programmable resolutions up to 1024 x 1024 pixels
*  Eight image bit-planes providing 256 colors, plus two overlay
   bit-planes providing an additional 3 colors simultaneously.
*  A Texas Instruments (tm) TMS34010 high speed graphics system
   processor executing graphics commands at up to 6 million
   instructions per second.
*  The Brooktree (R) BT458 palette chip, provides over 16 million
   possible colors.
*  Direct Memory Access (DMA) capabilities for high speed data transfer
   and communication between the AMIGA and the Graphics Card.
*  The industry standard TIGA graphics library provides a library of
   high speed graphics routines which execute on the TMS34010.

PRELIMINARY SPECIFICATION - SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE
***  NOT PRESENTLY FOR SALE  ***


From the look of the above anouncement, I would hazard to guess that it
will not support the standard Amiga display modes, and that applications
must be specifically written to support the display board (unless, for
porograms that display on the workbench screen, Commodore writes 1.4 (or
1.5) Workbench / Intuition to support the TIGA graphics library.)  
I don't know whether a standard Multisync monitor will work with the
display board, but I do know that most of the extended resolution VGA
display boards work with them (at similar resolutions.)
I would also **GUESS** that the board would be placed in the
A2000/2500's Amiga slots, instead of the video slot.

Mike Golden
Physiology Undergraduate
Michigan State University