Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watdragon!bmacintyre From: bmacintyre@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Blair MacIntyre) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Black BElt Video Message-ID: <19624@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Date: 9 Jan 90 15:37:31 GMT References: <8298@cbnewsm.ATT.COM> <19596@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <7694@nigel.udel.EDU> Reply-To: bmacintyre@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Blair MacIntyre) Distribution: na Organization: University of Waterloo Lines: 23 new@udel.edu (Darren New) writes: >In article <19596@watdragon.waterloo.edu> bmacintyre@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Blair MacIntyre) writes: >>But heck, why stop there? Why not allow up to 6 frames to be buffered >>and allow a 1280x600 screen? Or a 640x600 in this neato 24bit mode? > >Isn't this already done? I thought this was the way hedley (sp?) mode works. > -- Darren Sort of ... the short answer is yes. But, the neat thing is that if you made a box like the Black Belt thing, you could have something which is totally separate to a) the version of the Amiga b) the monitor The implications are interesting. For example, have the thing do nothing more than collect quadrants for the frame buffer, but in color. You could output color or black and white. Etc etc ... Sound cool? -- -- Blair MacIntyre, Professional Leech on Society ( aka CS Graduate Student ) -- bmacintyre@{watcgl, watdragon, violet}.{waterloo.edu, UWaterloo.ca} -- Date, verb: prearranged socializing with intent.