jet@karazm.math.uh.edu ("J. Eric Townsend") (03/03/91)
Found this somewhere else. Please get your attributions right when you follow up, I *did not* write the following article. In article <17526@milton.u.washington.edu> ramsiri@blake.u.washington.edu (Enartloc Nhoj) writes: > >March 2/91 >Here are some follow up questions i had for Lee Seiler at >LEXICOR: > >1). How many colors on screen and what is resolution with your > 24-bit color board and Atari 1224 on an ST? > > ** With 2megs of RAM, 16 million, 256 on screen, 512x512 > FULL SCREEN "virtual screen".. NOT overscan. > > LEXICOR will be supporting 4 boards: > MATRIX > LEXICOR > ICD > ISAC > >2). WIll the Gadgets SST 030 board work with LEXICOR.? > > ** As far as I know it does. > >3). A few people from the Amiga groups figured you must be > using a "$50 monitor" on the Amiga 3000 when you made > comparisons between the TT display and the A3000 display. > What monitor did you use on the A3000? > > ** Nanow flexscan $1600 monitor. I have the amiga and TT > hooked up to the same monitor. > The TT display is much more dramatic and purer > than interlace on amiga... the overscan on the amiga > gives you a shredded looking edge. > >4). Can you import DynaCADD drawings and render/animate them > with LEXICOR to do architectural walkthroughs? > > ** Of course! > >5). The Amiga is a great graphics machine... particulalry when you > have vendors like NewTek putting out the Video Toaster. > Anything like that going to happen for the TT? > > ** There will be a direct marriage of Video Toaster with TT > put out by reputable company THIS YEAR. > > Really? Some people buy the Amiga FOR the Toaster. > > ** Definitely! You will definitely see the Video Toaster on the > TT this year. NewTek wants the ATARI market. > >6). I am still impressed with my 8mhz 1040ST upgraded to 4MB RAM. > There is some software for the ST that really makes this box > seem like a lot more machine. My guess is that the TT > must be an excellent system. > > ** It is wonderful! > > Atari already has a strong hold in the music market. > If ATARI supports you guys in your graphics > development, I should think LEXICOR and others that follow > you will help make ATARI more competetive in the US. Is ATARI > supportive of your efforts? > > ** ATARI just now made the decision to get into professional > animation and DTP. People at ATARI are vey helpful, and > contrary to a lot of people's claim that they don't care, > ATARI people DO care and are trying very hard to provide great > products at affordable prices. -- J. Eric Townsend - jet@uh.edu - bitnet: jet@UHOU - vox: (713) 749-2120 Skate UNIX or bleed, boyo... (UNIX is a trademark of Bell Laboratories).