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#RetinaAGA

    04-Aug-93 01:38:41
Sb: #RetinaAGA
Fm: Spencer Gross 72060,1604
To: David F. Cattell 74755,316
David, I have called Macrosystems within the last week (and GVP as well- but I will get to that in a moment.) I was told by someone at Macro- that "AGAemulation" is AGA resolutions, but that "Amiga animations" will not work properly. Now, the call to GVP…I was told that their EGS board is now in developers models only at this time and would cost around $3000 for consumers if released with all there is on them now. What they plan to release, this fellow stated within 2-3 months, was a board competative with Retina with higher resolutions at 24 bits, operating approx. 5X faster, at about the same price as Retina. He said this board would be for the A2000 only and not for the A3000, but implied with the legalistic language they need to use, that an A3000 card would soon follow. Sounds most promising to me, but I've held my breathe before! And will EGS board run "Amiga animation"? One local (San Francisco) Amiga dealer told me he thinks these high res cards may be better than AGA when Commodore releases there new OS with what I believe he referred to as retargetable graphics. Anyone heard more than this about those cards or the new OS?/exit