tron1@tronsbox.xei.com (Kenneth Jamieson) (04/08/91)
Ok... I will be picking up one of the following display enhancers in the near future, and need some help filling in info. For each of DCTV, HAM-E, COLORBURST... could someone mail me or post info on: 1) What type of monitor does it need ? 2) True 24 bit color ? 3) Amiga-co-operative ? 4) Resolutions ? 5) Genlockable ? So, for example, the DCTV unit looks good, but has a few problems that I can see.... One is it ONLY puts out composite video, no RGB there at all. It only has the one resolution, and is NOT amiga co-operative I.E. -- you cant push,pop amiga windows over the top of the 24 bit image with standard software like the HAM-E. Thanks! -- ========[ Xanadu Enterprises Inc. Amiga & Unix Software Development]======= = "I know how you feel, you don't know if you want to hit me or kiss me - = = --- I get a lot of that." Madonna as Breathless Mahoney (Dick Tracy) = =========== Ken Jamieson: uunet!tronsbox.xei.com!tron1 =================== = NONE of the opinions represented here are endorsed by anybody. = === The Romantic Encounters BBS 201-759-8450(PEP) / 201-759-8568(2400) ====
es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) (04/09/91)
In article <1528@tronsbox.xei.com> tron1@tronsbox.xei.com (Kenneth Jamieson) writes: >Ok... I will be picking up one of the following display enhancers in >the near future, and need some help filling in info. > > For each of DCTV, HAM-E, COLORBURST... could someone mail me >or post info on: > Here's HAM-E. > 1) What type of monitor does it need ? It doesn't change the format of the output signal, takes RGB and outputs RGB. > 2) True 24 bit color ? You have two modes. One is 256 (or is it 512?) out of 16.7M. The other is a HAM style mode giving 241K out of 16.7M simultaneous. The fringing isn't really visible like with HAM because you have 256 registers to choose from. > 3) Amiga-co-operative ? The way it works it that in the upper 1/4 -- 4 scan lines of the display it encodes some information that, when the HAM-E board sees it, tells it to convert the image. So you can use any player programs. The images are just IFF files. > 4) Resolutions ? 384x480. Plus, there is a higher version of the board which does anti-aliasing to give you the equivalent of 768x480 without any additional bus usage. > 5) Genlockable ? Yes, any genlock that connects externally via the RGB port will work just fine. > > So, for example, the DCTV unit looks good, but has a few >problems that I can see.... One is it ONLY puts out composite video, >no RGB there at all. It only has the one resolution, and is NOT amiga >co-operative I.E. -- you cant push,pop amiga windows over the top of >the 24 bit image with standard software like the HAM-E. > > Thanks! > > >-- >========[ Xanadu Enterprises Inc. Amiga & Unix Software Development]======= >= "I know how you feel, you don't know if you want to hit me or kiss me - = >= --- I get a lot of that." Madonna as Breathless Mahoney (Dick Tracy) = >=========== Ken Jamieson: uunet!tronsbox.xei.com!tron1 =================== >= NONE of the opinions represented here are endorsed by anybody. = >=== The Romantic Encounters BBS 201-759-8450(PEP) / 201-759-8568(2400) ==== -- Ethan Q: How many Comp Sci majors does it take to change a lightbulb A: None. It's a hardware problem.