markus@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Markus Illenseer) (06/14/91)
In article <VINSCI.91Jun11130347@nic.nic.funet.fi>, vinsci@nic.funet.fi (Leonard Norrgard) writes: [stuff about 040'card deleted] |> Their Visiona 24bit graphics card isn't available yet (though they |> showed it at Amiga '91 in Berlin about a month ago), but scheduled for |> the end of the year. The version shown at the show didn't have a |> hardware cursor, which they said they would include in the next |> in-house version of the card. Programming info & libraries are |> available now though. (I got mine in Berlin :-) |> For some reason they think that their MEM64 64Mb nibble mode memory |> card won't have a market without it, so they plan to release them at |> the same time. I suppose they're thinking of image manipulation as the |> main market for the Visiona and that is of course memory intesive. |> However one would think that it would be good for the Unix systems as |> well! I was just wondering about. CBM showed the Vision Card running in the A3000UX on the Ami-Expo in Berlin. There was a screen device and a seperate Monitor. But, recently, i am not very sure. Could someone else proove it ? If it was not the card from X-Pert, then it was another card. But it was nice to see the Amiga running X11R4 on a high-resolution card/monitor ! (With a 3-Button-Mouse from CBM :-) |> [address deleted] |> Enjoy, |> |> -- Leonard -- CU, Markus Markus Illenseer, Computer Science , University of Bielefeld, Germany I read the news today, oh boys ... about a lucky man who made the grade ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------
vinsci@nic.funet.fi (Leonard Norrgard) (06/15/91)
In article <1991Jun14.114706.2005@unibi.uni-bielefeld.de> markus@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Markus Illenseer) writes: In article <VINSCI.91Jun11130347@nic.nic.funet.fi>, vinsci@nic.funet.fi (Leonard Norrgard) writes: [stuff about 040'card deleted] |> Their Visiona 24bit graphics card isn't available yet (though they |> showed it at Amiga '91 in Berlin about a month ago), but scheduled for |> the end of the year. The version shown at the show didn't have a |> hardware cursor, which they said they would include in the next |> in-house version of the card. Programming info & libraries are |> available now though. (I got mine in Berlin :-) |> For some reason they think that their MEM64 64Mb nibble mode memory |> card won't have a market without it, so they plan to release them at |> the same time. I suppose they're thinking of image manipulation as the |> main market for the Visiona and that is of course memory intesive. |> However one would think that it would be good for the Unix systems as |> well! I was just wondering about. CBM showed the Vision Card running in the A3000UX on the Ami-Expo in Berlin. There was a screen device and a seperate Monitor. But, recently, i am not very sure. Could someone else proove it ? If it was not the card from X-Pert, then it was another card. But it was nice to see the Amiga running X11R4 on a high-resolution card/monitor ! (With a 3-Button-Mouse from CBM :-) I think CBM showed both the ULowell & the Visiona card, while X-Pert showed a couple of Visionas in their stand. The Visiona cards were prototypes. CU, Markus Markus Illenseer, Computer Science , University of Bielefeld, Germany -- Leonard
giger@ganesha.uucp ( private) (06/16/91)
In article <1991Jun14.114706.2005@unibi.uni-bielefeld.de> markus@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Markus Illenseer) writes: >In article <VINSCI.91Jun11130347@nic.nic.funet.fi>, vinsci@nic.funet.fi (Leonard Norrgard) writes: >|> Their Visiona 24bit graphics card isn't available yet (though they >|> showed it at Amiga '91 in Berlin about a month ago), but scheduled for >|> the end of the year. The version shown at the show didn't have a [...] > >I was just wondering about. CBM showed the Vision Card running in the A3000UX >on the Ami-Expo in Berlin. There was a screen device and a seperate Monitor. >But, recently, i am not very sure. Could someone else proove it ? > >If it was not the card from X-Pert, then it was another card. But it was nice to >see the Amiga running X11R4 on a high-resolution card/monitor ! Commodore showed the A2410 card under UNIX which is supported by the X server shipping in version 1.1. The Visiona guys, at CeBIT '91, inititially didn't have plans for an X server, but I hope I was succesful convincing them. Note though, that the Visiona card is a true 24bit-plane design while Commodore's A2410 is 256 colors out 16 million. Unlike the A2410, the Visiona doesn't have its own on-board processor which could turn out to be less optimal for what you want under X, although it may be excellent for other purposes. Best regards, Thomas. -- Thomas Giger, Technical Support Manager, Commodore ESCO.
bdraschk@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Bernd Raschke) (06/17/91)
markus@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Markus Illenseer) writes: >I was just wondering about. CBM showed the Vision Card running in the A3000UX >on the Ami-Expo in Berlin. There was a screen device and a seperate Monitor. >But, recently, i am not very sure. Could someone else proove it ? In the Unix-Corner of CBM`s booth (is this the right word???) there were two A3000/UX with the 2410 (lowell board). There was also an A3000 with the Visiona card, running OS 2.0. They had some sort of workbench support (copying the screenram to the visiona-video ram, quite slow) and promised lots of libraries similar to graphics.l and intuition.l to make proting as easy as possible. >If it was not the card from X-Pert, then it was another card. But it was nice to >see the Amiga running X11R4 on a high-resolution card/monitor ! It where both cards, but just one ran X. But a X device driver was promised, too. >(With a 3-Button-Mouse from CBM :-) >|> >[address deleted] >|> Enjoy, >|> >|> -- Leonard >-- >CU, Markus >[address deleted] Ciao, bernd --- Bernd 'The Real Arthur!' Raschke |Only // bdraschk@faui09.informatik.uni-erlangen.de | \\ // Amiga hartmannstr. 129 8520 erlangen 09131 38244 | \X/ makes it possible "You're only human, supposed to make mistakes..."
redekop@obelix.gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Tzoq Mrekazh) (06/17/91)
Does anyone out there know what the maximum screen resolution on one of these
cards is? Is it up to 1024x1024? If not, is there such a card out/in the
works?
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