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In article <1989Sep21.074352.1066@paris.ics.uci.edu> jvance@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Joachim Vance) writes:
>
>  Does anyone know any information about the new graphics board for the 
>ST.  I heard very little information about it.  It called the Parsec? or 
>something similar and I guess it's basically a small graphics computer 
>that uses the ST as a host.  It can produce resolutions up to 1028 x 728
>and pull colors from a pallette of over 4000.  But what sounded impressive
>to me was that you could expand this to 128K colors on the screen at a time
>from a palette of over 4 million!  
>
> Can sombody confirm or deny this and if it is true post more info.
>I sure want to know more about something this good.
>
>Joachim
>jvance@bonnie.ics.uci.edu
>or
>jvance%bonnie@orion.cf.uci.edu


Yeah, I remember reading about the Parsec Pixel+ by Elmtech Research over
a year ago in _The Games Machine_ magazine, August '88.   Over the summer,
I  saw the August '89 issue and they said they WOULD have an article about
the board in their Spetember '89 issue.
   (all last year they kept saying they'd have a review NEXT month)

From what I read last year, Elmtech was going to release three boards.
One would be a color board with nice resolution and 4096 colors, I think.
The second, the Parserc Pixel+ would have a resolution of 1024x1024,
8 bit planes, and palette of 16+ million colors.  The last board was just
a monochrome board with nice resolution.   All three operated at 6.25 MIPS,
and would plug in through the cartridge port.

If anyone has the Sept '89 issue of _The Games Machine_, please post
us a summary of the article.

				Cliff
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