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From: covertr@force.UUCP (Richard E. Covert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: New Graphics board for ST
Summary: ParSEc is by Elmtech of the UK
Message-ID: <45d9ea83.14a1f@force.UUCP>
Date: 25 Sep 89 15:50:45 GMT
References: <1989Sep21.074352.1066@paris.ics.uci.edu>
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In article <1989Sep21.074352.1066@paris.ics.uci.edu>, jvance@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Joachim Vance) writes:
> 
>   Does anyone know any information about the new graphics board for the 
> ST.  I heard very little information about it.  It called the Parsec? or 
> something similar and I guess it's basically a small graphics computer 
> that uses the ST as a host.  It can produce resolutions up to 1028 x 728
> and pull colors from a pallette of over 4000.  But what sounded impressive
> to me was that you could expand this to 128K colors on the screen at a time
> from a palette of over 4 million!  
> 
>  Can sombody confirm or deny this and if it is true post more info.
> I sure want to know more about something this good.
> 
> Joachim
> jvance@bonnie.ics.uci.edu
> or
> jvance%bonnie@orion.cf.uci.edu

There
have been
a couple
of articles
in various UK ST magazines about the ParSec system by Elmtech of UK. The best
article so far was in the Sept 1989 issue of ST FORMAT magazine. I don't have
the article in front of me, but ParSec comes in 2 models, the low end
selling for about 919 Pounds British (or about $1400 American) without a 
colour monitor (which is another 700 Pounds).

	The Parsec plugs into the ST DMA port and is a standalone box with its
own power supply cables etc. Parsec is supposed to come with a GEM driver so that
existing GEM based programs will run on it. Don't know about games, but Flight
simulator, in 4096 colors, would be phenomonal!!

I will try to type in the entire article tomorrow. 

Does anyone know anything about the new American color graphics board?? It is
supposed to plug into the Mega ST's expansion slot. But, I don't know the vendor.

Richard Covert