Re: Old news-- Turborez is dead (was CMD stuff...)

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nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates) wrote:

>   While the TurboRez card had a number of neater features over the
>SS, it's unlikely you'd be able to rebuild it easily these days. Heck,
>even the 2D graphics chip (VDP2) on the Sega Saturn would be a huge
>improvement on the GS and probably much more powerful than the TR
>board, but that's another thing that's essentially dead in the US
>also. Even the SNES's graphics setups woulda been a huge improvement
>for the GS-- dedicated hardware for graphics and sound is really the
>best way to speed up things.

I know it, I know the card was cancelled, but I was thinking that it would
be sad to see all those years of development go to waste. Surely
RezTek should still have the designs to the board and the prototypes. If
someone, such as an innovative company targetting orphaned platforms
(like CMD), wanted to pick up the torch, this is a head start.  No doubt
there are more powerful graphics than the TR for other computers and
game consoles, but the TR would be a quantum leap for the GS.  If the
graphics chips were off the shelf, they should be much cheaper now
too.  One clear advantage over the SS is that TR does not use the
shadowing technique that is the source of so many complaints and
mode incompatibilities (3200, DHR, DLR).