Re: AVATAR

[ltchean@rambutan.iss.nus.sg (lim thye chean)]

In article <1992Nov3.203805.2703@brandonu.ca> marshall@brandonu.ca (Edward S. Marshall) writes:
>In article <135@MECHANICAL.watstar.uwaterloo.ca>, jmarkus@electrical.watstar.uwaterloo.ca writes:
>> 
>> What is AVATAR?
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>> --
>>                         Jeff Markus
>>                         jmarkus@mechanical.watstar.uwaterloo.ca
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>>         "I can't think of anything cute or poignant to put here!"
>
>What is Avatar?  Ah, finally, an Ultima question!
>
>Edward S. Marshall                                         marshall@brandonu.ca
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Oh boy, I think you got it all wrong.

I think he is refer to the project Avatar.

Avatar is a (still-in-development) computer that is supposed to be the
Super IIGS. It will use IBM clone casing, keyboard, etc to save the cost,
but internally, it is a super fast 65816 machine. It uses Ensoniq, and have
much better screen resolution and colours (640 x 480 x 256 default, 
resolution and colours actually programmable, depends on VRAM).

According to Bill, it will run most well behaved Apple IIGS software.


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