Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!unido!pfm!nadia!agnus From: agnus@nadia.UUCP (Matthias Zepf) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: High-res Graphics Board for Amy (1024x1024x256 colors) Message-ID: <479@nadia.UUCP> Date: 25 May 89 13:13:09 GMT References: <648@corpane.UUCP> <3060@cps3xx.UUCP> <662@corpane.UUCP> Reply-To: agnus@nadia.UUCP (Matthias Zepf) Organization: Stuttgart Net System, FRG Lines: 43 In article <662@corpane.UUCP> sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) writes: >From: John Schilling QA >As a technology preview we displayed a prototype HRG board at CeBIT >in Hannover, West Germany in March. It is a nice board--it uses the >TI 34010 graphics processor and uses TIGA libraries. >You can estimate the cost of such a board [IT IS NOT CURRENTLY A PRODUCT >--AND IT MAY NEVER BE A PRODUCT--ITS JUST A TECH PREVIEW!!!] >AT AROUND $3000 AT CURRENT RAM chip costs--the board has 2Mb of very >fast RAM in it!!!! >The cheapest monitor you can hook it up to right now is around >$1400 (monochrome--$1900 color) >Its very nice, but for the $8000 such a system would coest, its too >pricely right now... (but it is soooo sweeetttt!) Thats right. This graphic board is really sweet and also very fast. I have seen it on CeBIT 89 in Hannover. It was build in a A2000 with 1 Meg CHIP Ram, 68030 card working at 25 MHz, FlickerFixer for the normal display, much Ram (I think). And that Amiga would cost more than $8000! The graphic demo on that new card seem very fast and really sweet and pritty! Martin Kopp (Author of TurboBackupV1.00) was showing nice and colorful IFF pictures (about five the same time) with color-cycling animation, a CAD program and a rewritten CON:-Device for the this graphic board. But you are right... It is too pricely for us... :-( >Now, I would love to see this board come to market, but it is unlikely unless >we can convince Commodore Marketing that the Amiga could make a very nice >workstation with this board. Can you see a 68030 Amiga, with this board, about >8 megs of memory and Ethernet? It would blow away Macs, IBM, Apollo, Vaxen, >and Sun's! In technical description it will, right. But in the market situation it will not, 'cause the manufactor name is COMMODORE! :-( Greets, Matthias -- +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Matthias "Agnus" Zepf ...!uunet!unido!gtc!aragon!amylnd!agnus | | D-7250 Leonberg, West Germany AMIGA made it possible FIRST! | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+