Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!occrsh!uokmax!cbdougla From: cbdougla@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Collin Broadrick Douglas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: TurboRez GS, new APW Message-ID: <1989Sep24.180727.16151@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> Date: 24 Sep 89 18:07:27 GMT References: <17582@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Reply-To: cbdougla@uokmax.UUCP (Collin Broadrick Douglas) Organization: University of Oklahoma, ECN Lines: 27 In article <17582@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Andy McFadden) writes: >Just got back from AppleFest... one of the more interesting products was >called the "TurboRez GS". It's a "Graphics Enhancement Board", which gives >you 256 colors per line instead of only 16. Additionally, it appears to do >some graphics processing and page flipping (if it didn't the demo I was >watching would not have been possible). The guy I spoke with didn't go into >great detail, and their flyer said "...there are several proprietary features >which we cannot presently disclose...", but he did mention that they were >considering using interlacing to get 400 line vertical resolution. > >Another item of note was the new APW. Right now they're only selling the >tools, but those include a new linker, a resource compiler/decompiler, an >ExpressLoad convert, and revisions of older tools (like MakeLib). The >interfaces have been updated through System 5.0.2, which will be released >soon. > >Oh yeah, there was some portable thing there. > >-- >fadden@cory.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden) >...!ucbvax!cory!fadden Please keep us informed about this product. how much does it cost? Collin cbdougla@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu