fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Andy McFadden) (09/24/89)
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
MACAUSLANDR@vax1.cosv.tuns.ca (Robert MacAusland) (09/24/89)
So what was new in the game front at Applefest?
emerrill@tippy.uucp (09/25/89)
/* Written 5:01 pm Sep 23, 1989 by fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU in tippy:apple */ >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. This sounds like a step in the right direction, but I wonder how many software packages will be modified to take advantage of it. What company makes it? When will it be available and at what suggested price? Thanks for any info!! _________________________________________________________ | | | Eric Merrill tippy!emerrill@newton.physics.purdue.edu | | | | Disclaimer: | | If you think I'm serious, that's your problem! | |_________________________________________________________|
cbdougla@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Collin Broadrick Douglas) (09/25/89)
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
unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) (09/27/89)
In article <127500054@tippy> emerrill@tippy.uucp writes: > >/* Written 5:01 pm Sep 23, 1989 by fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU in tippy:apple */ >>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. > >This sounds like a step in the right direction, but I wonder how many >software packages will be modified to take advantage of it. What company >makes it? When will it be available and at what suggested price? Thanks >for any info!! > _________________________________________________________ > | | > | Eric Merrill tippy!emerrill@newton.physics.purdue.edu | > |_________________________________________________________| I don't remember the name of company that actually made the product, but I do know that Applied Ingenuity was at least -PLANNING- on marketing the product... The company that invented it didn't want to hassle with the marketing/etc... I got this information from the dude from HAL LABS who was in the Applied Ingenuity cubicle...(The author of TAXMAN and a new Mandlebrot generator that he wrote that is in his II Technical magazine.. Was kinda slow but the source is short as all hell... Of course, I may be wrong in saying that, as I've never seen source of another Mandlebrot generator).
throoph@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (Henry Throop) (10/03/89)
In article <9238@saturn.ucsc.edu> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes: [stuff about TurboRez gs deleted] >I got this information from the dude from HAL >LABS who was in the Applied Ingenuity cubicle...(The author of TAXMAN and >a new Mandlebrot generator that he wrote that is in his II Technical >magazine.. Was kinda slow but the source is short as all hell... Of course, >I may be wrong in saying that, as I've never seen source of another Mandlebrot >generator). Call -A.P.P.L.E. had a short gs Mandelbrot a year or so ago. I can't find it right now, but I think the source was a page or two. The Mandelbrot set can also be generated from a one-line BASIC program (!). Incidently, I have a couple of ML programs for the gs (SHR) that I wrote to display two other types of fractals. I'll post them if there's any interest. Henry --- Henry Throop Internet: throoph@jacobs.cs.orst.edu