Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!oberon!pollux.usc.edu!papa From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Ideas for New Custom Chips Message-ID: <10134@oberon.USC.EDU> Date: 26 Jun 88 00:24:37 GMT References: <3128@polya.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@oberon.USC.EDU Reply-To: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) Organization: Felsina Software, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 54 In article <3128@polya.Stanford.EDU| rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) writes: |In order for the Amiga to compete in the current marketplace, the |machine should have at *least* the following features: | * 4096 color registers, 16 million colors This is reasonable. Actually even 256 out of 4096 (today) would be good. By the time new chips are developed a 2048-entry LUT and 16M colors is probably the minumum. Competitors are catching up. | * 2048x2048 resolution, non-interlaced, on a standard TV NO WAY. Max resolutions, including overscan, are as follows: NTSC RS-170A 756x486 PAL CCIR-624 738x576 Both are interlaced. HDTV is another story, but until the Japanese and European agree on a standard, we'll have to wait. These resolutions should ALWAYS be available, since this is the very reason the Amiga signal can be dumped to videotape or fed to a TV studio input for broadcast. What I want is a choice of more non-interlaced resolutions. Like: 32 bits/pixel 16 bit/pixel 8 bits/pixel ------------- ------------ ------------ 1024x1024 2048x1024 4096x1024 512x2048 1024x2048 2048x2048 If you own a VISTA board from TrueVision, these might look familiar. I urge C-A to take a look at the VISTA board. That is what the Amiga SHOULD have had in the first place. But then the VISTA board is $5995. This is definitely what the Amiga MUST be within 1-2 years to still be competitive with decreasing video board prices. Most of them are TMS 34010 based products, and the price of this chip is decreasing. | * 12 blitters, one for each of 12 planes | * 88000 CPU, w/ 68020 emulation as fast as the 68020 [ various "inexpensive" :-) items deleted] | * A price under $1000 | |Without these features, the machine simply cannot be taken |seriously as a home computer; they are absolutely essential to ^^^^ |emulate a vt100 properly, let alone run video games. ^^^^^ ^^^^^ You must be kidding, right? But then I see no :-) -- Marco Papa 'Doc' -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= uucp:...!pollux!papa BIX:papa ARPAnet:pollux!papa@oberon.usc.edu "There's Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Diga!" -- Leo Schwab [quoting Rick Unland] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=