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Mega-Pix graphic board?
- Subject: Mega-Pix graphic board?
- From: spector@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)
- Date: 1995/08/05
- Distribution: world
- News-software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.50
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Concordia University
Just looking through the November 1986 issue of A+ Magazine (pg 147)
and found this rather interesting article. Apparently the SuperSprite and
StarSprite weren't the only graphic enhancement boards made for the Apple II.:)
I'm curious, was this board ever released or was it just vaporware...?
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The Mega-Pix Series
XOR Systems has introduced The Mega-Pix Series of graphics hardware for
Apple IIs. The board contains a 16-bit graphics processor; 128K of
dynamic RAM, expandable to 512K; composite video circuitry; a TTL
connector; and an expansion bus for a color upgrade. The board provides
a resolution of 640 x 200 pixels but is programmable to provides resolutions
up to 1024 x 1024 pixels. Also included is a software package that features
the Standard Graphic Interface (SGI), a subset of GKS; the Multi Graphic
Interface (MGI), and subset of SGI; the Raw Graphic Package; and a turtle
graphics unit. A 3-D graphics package and source code are available.
(List Price: $299 for monochrome version)
Rrequires: Apple II Plus or IIe
XOR Systems
986 Live Oak Drive
Santa Clara, CA 95051
(408) 249-5388
[B&W Picture provided of finished board, mostly TTL chips with a NEC 40(?)
pin chip, RCA jack on end].
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Mitchell Spector
m_spect@vega.concordia.ca / spector@vax2.concordia.ca