milo@ndmath.UUCP (Greg Corson) (11/03/86)
There was a short note in this month's BYTE magazine mentioning that Atari had
released a 2 and 4 megabyte version of the ST in europe somewhere. Does anyone
out there (ATARI??) have some more information on this? The new machine was
said to have a bit-blit chip. I would be very interested to know if there
are any new graphics modes with more colors/higher resolutions.
Greg Corson
{pur-ee,seismo}!iuvax!kangaro!miloneil@atari.UUcp (Neil Harris) (11/07/86)
In article <154@ndmath.UUCP>, milo@ndmath.UUCP (Greg Corson) writes: > There was a short note in this month's BYTE magazine mentioning that Atari > had released a 2 and 4 megabyte version of the ST in europe somewhere. > Does anyone out there (ATARI??) have some more information on this? The > new machine was said to have a bit-blit chip. I would be very interested > to know if there are any new graphics modes with more colors/higher > resolutions. No word will be forthcoming on hardware products until they pass FCC. The blit chip (which will be available as a ~$120 upgrade to older ST's) will not add new resolutions -- it is not an upgrade to the video shifter, it is a chip chich performs bit block memory transfers. -- --->Neil @ Atari ...{hoptoad, lll-lcc, pyramid, imagen, sun}!atari!neil BIX: neilharris CIS: 70007,1135 Delphi: NEILHARRIS GENIE: nharris WELL: neil Atari Corp. BBS 408-745-5308 US Mail: Atari Corp. 1196 Borregas Ave. Sunnyvale, CA 94086 "I'm a 20th century man but I don't want to die here." -- Ray Davies