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The current version 2.8 ALREADY supports the Retina, Merlin supports comming soon. Ben, Leigh's Computers

Thanks everybody. I don't imagine my wife is going to be real pleased, you have just whetted my appetite and she hates when I spend money. Are there any problems any of you have encountered with Emplant. i.e. incompatablitites?

Paul, If your Syquest was formatted and used on the Amiga with Amax, you don't need to connect it to the Emplant's SCSI port, but to the Amiga's. The SCSI port on the Emplant is for Mac SCSI manager devices which are formatted on a real Mac. If your Syquest cartridge is already set up from Amax, then just connect it to the Amiga's SCSI chain (being sure to set the SCSI ID and set the termination corrrectly.)

Let me know how it goes when you get the Emplant. I think I do need a Sybil unfortunately. \*donovan*\

Full specs are hard to come by. I have an internet message from a friend in Sweden that give the salesmens's version of the specs however. Taking it with a dose of salt then here it is (if it isn't accurate please don't sue me or hurt my feelings) ==================================================== I have a flyer here from the Swedish distributors of the Merlin card. They make a comparison between the 2 as far as technical data goes. It's of course marketing hype, but for what it's worth, I'll type it in. The biggest weakness of the Merlin is that it's not yet available, but its Swedish distributor told me last Wednesday that all cards have now reached XPert in Germany, and they will be holding demonstrations at the end of next week. Merlin Retina Max. res. 1280 x 1024 2400 x 1200 Number of col. in max. res. 16.8 million ? Out of a palette of 16.8 million ? Max. col. per pixel 16.8 million 16.8 million In what res. 1280 x 1024 1162 x 852 Max. rex. in 24 bit 1280 x 1024 1162 x 852 Max. rex. in 16 bit 1280 x 1024 1440 x 566 Out of a palette of 16.8 million 65536 Max. res. in 8 bit 1280 x 1024 1900 x 1426 Out of a palette of 16.8 million ? Outputs RGB/VGA, Y/C, VGA composite Needs extra mon. to show Amiga graphics No Yes Works with all monitors (1084/MultiSync etc.) Yes Yes Monitor switch for original Amiga graphics Yes Yes Genlock compatible Yes No PIP for preview of graphics or showing of video or TV with digitizer module. Yes No Autoconfig Zorro II (3.5 Mb/s) Yes Yes Autoconfig Zorro III(20 Mb/s) Yes No Blitter for fast line drawing etc. (Blit-logic for Retina) Yes Yes Possible to connect enhancement modules to the card Yes No Possible to connect multiple enhancement modules Yes – Linear adressing Yes No Max. amount of RAM on card 16 Mb 4 Mb Virtual screens with flickerfree scrolling Yes No Virtual screen, max. size 256 colours 4096 x 4096 – Virtual screen, max. size 65536 colours 4096 x 2048 – Virtual screen, max. size 16.8 million colours 2680 x 2048 – Developerinformation for expansion bus Yes – Max. number of screens Unlimited 1* W.b. 2.1 with support for 256 colours Yes No W.b. 3.0 with support for 256 colours Yes Yes Support for AGA screenmodes (HAM8, EHB etc.) Yes No Screenmode program to set resolution Yes Yes Software support for blitter Yes – Screen-prefs program for setting of own resolutions Yes Yes Screen promotion Yes Yes Screens-in-screen (Viewing of multiple screens simultaneously) Yes No Screens-in-window (Open custom and public screens in a window) Yes No W.b./Intuition emulator Yes Yes Included drawingprograms TV Paint 2.0 jr True paint Loaders/Picture showing programs JPEG, GIF, YUV YUV, IFF IFF Savers Finns, cost extra AD Pro Imagemaster Harlequin Program to show animations Yes No ======================================================= How about that, the AWRITE command actually works, I like this 386 BB. AGA means "Amiga is Going Again" { Internet: jonest@attmail.hfsi.com CIS: 76470,1332 }