covertr@force.UUCP (Richard E. Covert) (09/08/89)
Please don't flame me about this ad because I hoping that someone from the Old World will see this message and post a response. Here goes: From 'Atari ST User' Magazine, September 1989 Page 79 an ad for an exciting new video graphics board for the ST called PARSEC 4768!!! L799 + VAT Including Da vinci art A fully feature graphic package with Pixel Processing o 32 bit 50 MHz Processor - 6.25 MIPS o Average Bit Move - 25.0 M Bits/sec o Horizontal Line/Fill - 50.0 M Bits/sec o Fill rectangle - 12.5 M pix/sec o Copy block - 3.12 M pix/sec o 32 bit Add - 6.25 M ins/sec [that's MIPS folks rec] o Programmable Resolution - 1024 x 768 o Colour Palette - 4096 o Colour planes - 4 o Colours per line - 16 o Max. colours per screen - 4096 o On-board memory - 768K o 8768 upgrade to enable 8 plane output with 16 million colours, 256 per line, additional 768K memory expandable to 5.5 Mb - available October/November 1989 o Genlock and Digitiser modules available end 1989 o GEM driver for existing GEM based programs to operate on the ParSec - available September 1989 o ELM Multisync Plus monitor to support resolutions to 1024 x 768 - available now at L650 + VAT Elmtech Research Ltd 6 Witherford Way, Selly Oak, Birmingham B29 4AX England Tel. 021-472-5719 Fax 021-414-1630 ************************* End of Ad ************************** Could someone from UK please call Elmtech and get the lowdown on this product!! This is the kind of third party vendor hardware that the ST really needs!! Please post any additional info you get!! Richard (gtephx!covertr) Covert