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From: wetter@cup.portal.com (Pierce T Wetter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Need 32 bit quickdraw info
Message-ID: <21415@cup.portal.com>
Date: 19 Aug 89 00:25:27 GMT
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   Radius makes a 32 and 16 bit color board called DirectColor.
   (Actually, its a 24bit/16bit/8bit/1bit card.) The card drives either our
19" Sony Trinitron display (1152 by 882) or a 21" Toshiba (1152 by 882).
The refresh rate is 72Hz which is much nicer than the traditional 60Hz rate.
With that you also get the Radius software which includes:
      Radius SANE--Patch SANE to use the Math Coprocessor
      Radius II Display: Screen Saver, Tear Off Menus, Dump Screen to
                      PICT file, (or section of screen), Enlarged Menus.

   Also you can buy the DirectColor/16 now and upgrade later to the 24 bit 
version (Just buy the extra memory chips from us or someone else). 

  More importantly, we also sell a product called QuickColor which only works
with our boards. One important fact to know about 32-bit QuickDraw is that it
is four times as slow. With the QuickColor board installed, however, 32bit 
mode is as fast or faster then standard 8-bit mode. When you are running in 
8bit mode, QuickColor will also speed up your system.

Pierce

Disclaimer: I work for Radius. In fact, I did our QuickColor demo for MacWorld.
Radius doesn't know I read UseNet, and probably doesn't care.