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Article #2710Re: New ST models?
From: Neil Harris
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 1986 22:16
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 1986 22:16
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In article <154@ndmath.UUCP>, milo@ndmath.UUCP (Greg Corson) writes:
> There was a short note in this month's BYTE magazine mentioning that Atari
> had released a 2 and 4 megabyte version of the ST in europe somewhere.
> Does anyone out there (ATARI??) have some more information on this? The
> new machine was said to have a bit-blit chip. I would be very interested
> to know if there are any new graphics modes with more colors/higher
> resolutions.
No word will be forthcoming on hardware products until they pass FCC.
The blit chip (which will be available as a ~$120 upgrade to older ST's)
will not add new resolutions -- it is not an upgrade to the video shifter,
it is a chip chich performs bit block memory transfers.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!rutgers!sri-spam!sri-unix!hplabs!pyramid!decwrl!sun!imagen!atari!neil From: neil@atari.UUcp (Neil Harris) Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16 Subject: Re: New ST models? Message-ID: <453@atari.UUcp> Date: Thu, 6-Nov-86 17:16:48 EST Article-I.D.: atari.453 Posted: Thu Nov 6 17:16:48 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 8-Nov-86 03:55:08 EST References: <154@ndmath.UUCP> Organization: Atari Corp/Mktg Lines: 27