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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
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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