Re: TurboRez Info

[ltchean@iss.nus.sg (Lim Thye Chean)]

seah@ee.rochester.edu (David Seah) writes:
: Apparently, Bill is having difficulty purchasing the small quantities
: of some parts he needs from the suppliers.  They are not filling his
: orders promptly, instead giving him scraps of cancelled orders here
: and there.  Because of this, Bill is considering going to custom
: chips.  If he does this, he expects to add more features.

I was wondering when will we see the final version of TurboRez? I have been
waiting for it for 4 years, and still no where in sight. :)

: As mentioned before, 640x200x256 colors.

Yes yes yes. Hopefully next version should have 640x400x256 colors.

But this is already very attractive to me. Now why do we need 320x200x256 
colors?

: Twice as much display memory (currently has enough to support two pages).

Yes yes yes.

: Blitter.

Wow wow wow. Now somebody please write Street Fighter IIGS.

: Hardware display list processing.

What is this?

: The latter two additions make sprite-like operations a possibility.
: 
: Bill St Pierre will be at Apple Expo West, Booth #335.  He'll have
: three IIGSs with TurboRezs in them.

Now lets hope I can win some money to go to USA...

An unrelated question: is it possible to write a Street Fighter II for IIGS,
assuming we don't scroll the background? If the background is not scrolling,
then the sprites need to be smaller... can it be done?

: -- 
: Dave Seah (seah@ee.rochester.edu, AFCDaveS@aol.com)

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