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Article #6360STE vs ST Shifter
From: Ken "nmi" Soohoo
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 1989 11:51
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 1989 11:51
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There's been quite a few ponderings in the last few days about the possiblity of an STE shifter that's pin-pin compadible with the ST shifter -- I just wanna add my $0.02 ;-) The STE shifter outputs 4 bits of color per gun, which means that the DACs required to go to your video are gonna be different, no? It would mean Atari would have to lay out another chip that's an ST replacement shifter w/o the extra color bit... Seems kinda pointless for them, lots of R&D $$, little return, plus they'd need lots of packages to hit all the shifter versions out there... Sigh, that's the way it seemed to me, not likely to be an ST STE shifter out any time soon... --Kenneth "kens" Soohoo (soohoo@cory.Berkeley.Edu) Atari Hacker (Atari's Hacker...) "It could be worse, you could get hit by a bus..." My opinions are my OWN, _not_ necessarily Atari's. But "hey", who knows?
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!decwrl!ucbvax!pasteur!cory.Berkeley.EDU!soohoo From: soohoo@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Ken "nmi" Soohoo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: STE vs ST Shifter Keywords: DAC, STE, Shifter Message-ID: <20157@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 1 Dec 89 11:51:51 GMT Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU Reply-To: soohoo@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Ken "nmi" Soohoo) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 19