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[ continuation ] A1950 is pretty equivalent, I think, to the Diamond Scan. Programming the board and configuring it to a particular monitor is accomplished with an included program, Tweek. Tweek is a bit intimidating initially but you get used to it and it has quite a nice Intuition interface (though the programmer must be a troll, the palette is SO DARK I really have to guess on some selections if working in indirect daylight [well shaded] though night-time is OK). Tweek puts up a test pattern for calibrating your monitor to the board at each resolution (7 example setups are provided). It also will load any Amiga IFF file up to 8 bit-planes (any higher and it tells you "Nope, more than 8 bit-planes"). The req.library file requester is used and provided. I am unhappy to report that DMI included NO large 8 bit-plane images with the package. I consider that an error on their part. Any IFF image loaded into Tweek may be enlarged to fill the display at the currently chosen screen resolution. This is a hardware function. Basically, if you have an Amiga flicker fixed display (however done) it will show the picture as well as the DMI pretty much. HAM is NOT SUPPORTED in this version but conversion facilities for various graphics formats is available commercially and a HAM pic can be transformed by such software to a form palatable to the Resolver. Also included is a simple Shell/CLI based program equivalent to a simple 'show' program available for viewing graphics in the native Amiga environment. This program analyzes an incoming file and sets the Resolver up in as high a resolution as is needed to display the image. It is not otherwise adjustable. There is a paint program provided which has an 8 bit-plane palette and many of the basic drawing functions we are used to. It is PRIMITIVE, make no mistake about that, it even lacks an UNDO function and is limited in what resolutions it supports. Upgrades are promised :-). There is also a directory of small demos provided that is apparently something traditionally provided by TI with 34010 products. Some of these [ MORE ]