viraf@gwusun.gwu.edu (Viraf Bankwalla) (08/18/89)
Hi, Does any one have info on the 32-bit video cards, and or 32 bit Quickdraw, or know where I may get it. Thanks in advance. viraf bankwalla viraf@gwusun.gwu.edu uunet!gwusun!viraf
wetter@cup.portal.com (Pierce T Wetter) (08/19/89)
Radius makes a 32 and 16 bit color board called DirectColor.
(Actually, its a 24bit/16bit/8bit/1bit card.) The card drives either our
19" Sony Trinitron display (1152 by 882) or a 21" Toshiba (1152 by 882).
The refresh rate is 72Hz which is much nicer than the traditional 60Hz rate.
With that you also get the Radius software which includes:
Radius SANE--Patch SANE to use the Math Coprocessor
Radius II Display: Screen Saver, Tear Off Menus, Dump Screen to
PICT file, (or section of screen), Enlarged Menus.
Also you can buy the DirectColor/16 now and upgrade later to the 24 bit
version (Just buy the extra memory chips from us or someone else).
More importantly, we also sell a product called QuickColor which only works
with our boards. One important fact to know about 32-bit QuickDraw is that it
is four times as slow. With the QuickColor board installed, however, 32bit
mode is as fast or faster then standard 8-bit mode. When you are running in
8bit mode, QuickColor will also speed up your system.
Pierce
Disclaimer: I work for Radius. In fact, I did our QuickColor demo for MacWorld.
Radius doesn't know I read UseNet, and probably doesn't care.