protcoop@leibniz.uucp (06/03/89)
Is the new Enhanced Chip Set available for the Amiga yet? Does this new chip set have the flicker fixing built in? Where can I get it? Most importantly, I just bought a brand new A500 ( sorry Mark ) and would like the new ECS. If I bought my machine after the ECS became available, and ECS is being shipped with all new machines, can I get ECS for free since I bought after it was available? If it is not yet available, why did I see a message in which someone was saying how well the Zenith multi-sync monitor works with it? ------ Alan W. McKay | My opinions are mine, yours are yours. | Eat Food | NEPEAN, Ont. | I in no way pretend to represent the | and | 613-763-8980 | the options of my employer. So there. | LIVE !! |
bennett@mist.CS.ORST.EDU (Erik Bennett) (06/14/89)
Is there more to the ECS than the Fat Agnus? I heard tell of new graphics modes and the like, but doesn't the fat agnus just add more chip ram? thanks. -Erik bennett@cs.orst.edu
mcp@ziebmef.uucp (Marc Plumb) (06/19/89)
I just got a copy of the DevCon stuff... in the new chip set: Bigger blits (up to 32Kx32K) 1 Meg Chip Super-hires mode (4 colours, 6 bits/colour (2R, 2G, 2B), 1280 pixels/line) "Productivity mode" double-speed non-interlaced scanning (pixels are twice as fat, so you need to use super-hi-res to get 640 pixels across) Genlock any set of colours as transparent, and the border is independently selectable. You can also use a separate bitplane to select opacity. The documented hardware stop that stops you from overscanning onto sprites 0 and 1 now actually exists. There are a lot of neat ways to program the various blanking intervals. One particularly interesting register comes with a warning: "Incorrect doftware writing to the BEAMCON0 has the (remote) chance of destroying your extremely expensive multisync monitor." There's lots of support in the 1.4 graphics.library for all this. The 2024 (Viking/Hedeley) monitor, etc. Looks good! -- -Colin