npd@doc.ic.ac.uk (Niall P Davis) (11/21/90)
Hi out there in NetLand, I've more info on the Xpert Visiona 24Bit-Colour card for all of you. Visiona paint and Visiona paint plus. Even the smallest of the range, Visiona paint, is capable of 24 Bit-Colour. It comes with 2MB special Video Ram On- Board. This meant it is not capable of all rezs. The Visiona paint plus comes with 4MB On-Board and supports the full range of colours and Rezs. Visiona highpaint: Visiona highpaint is a special version of Visiona paint plus for the Amiga 3000. It directly supports the Zorro III slot. It is possible to upgrade the board with a T800 chip as a drawing unit and 8MB Video Ram. Using a CACHE card called the TIMEHOPPER also produced by Xpert, can increase the speed even more. Visiona highpaint ART: This version has a highspeed 64Bit interface for a hardware Drwaing unit. This provides the posibility of using chips such as the i860. Using the Huckepack technique of mounting a board on top of another it is possible to expamd the memory to 64MB. Right, All boards support (with enough memory) the following rezs: 1600 * 1280 8bit colour 75Hz interlaced 1280 * 1024 8Bit colour 60Hz non-interlaced 1152 * 900 8Bit colour 60Hz non-interlaced 1024 * 768 8Bit colour 90Hz non-interlaced 1200 * 900 24Bit colour 50Hz interlaced 1024 * 768 24Bit colour 60Hz interlaced 800 * 600 24Bit colour 50Hz non-interlaced 640 * 480 24Bit colour 75Hz non-interlaced Outputs programmable for: PAL NTSC D2MAC SECAM and others. At the AMIGA'90 show the Visiona paint and Visiona paint plus were on sale, for about DM5000+. The Visiona Highpaint is due in January and the Visiona Highpaint ART is due sometime towards the end of spring '91. Xpert have met their deadlines before so I've no doubt they will do the same this time. I've been very impressed with Xpert since I first heard of them. their products at the moment include a set of TRANSPUTER boards a CACHE card for the Amiga 3000 and and read/writeable optical disk drive with an average access time of 25ms and 128MB per disk. Xpert live in germany at: X-Pert Computer Services Gmbh Weiherwiese 27 D-6270 Idstein Tel: 061 26-88 09/ 30 56 and from 1.1.91: HighTech-Zentrum (Moosfeld) Schatzbogen 56-58 8000 Muenchen 82. If any one would like more info mail me. All the best, Niall. *************************************************************************** AMIGA// There * Niall Davis * Amiga // Can be * npd@doc.ic.ac.uk * \\ // only 1! * Department of Computing * ... A way of Life \X/ * IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON * ***************************************************************************