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[ continuation ] OUTLINE. THIS MUST BE SEEN TO BELIEVED (AND APPRECIATED) AND CAN OFTEN NOT BE DONE BY MANY HIGH-END WORKSTATIONS. [ note: sounds to me like the board/software allows you to drag around windows – and when you do, it doesn't draw lines, it draws the ENTIRE window imagery as you drag. This is an operation not possible on the A3000 in superhires mode even… ] Software (and hardware) developers will be interested to note that it is possible to port the EGS libraries to nearly any Graphics output device. In fact there are already implementations for several Amiga graphics boards, including the native Amiga custom chip set! An application using the EGS libraries as the can be run (the same unaltered executable code) on any graphics system supporting the EGS libraries as the libraries themselves convert the output into something the system can display (by automatic dithering, for example). [ note: hey, this suspiciously DOES sound like DIG! ] This also means that software developers can develop and test EGS compatible applications on a standard Amiga! GVP is interested in licensing the EGS libraries to any other hardware developers and, if necessary, will even assist in porting the libraries to other graphics boards at a small fee. The EGS libraries are expected to become the new, hardware independent, graphics standard on the Amiga. [ DIG ] Note that GVP will NOT licence the EGS Workbench driver as this uses proprietary software technology [ gee, CBM couldn't do it any better or as on-time 🙂 ] What about software? This is of course the big question, especially on the Amiga. Until the EGS-110/24, high resolution graphics boards on the Amiga were only able to be used with software specially written for each particular board. This limits the usefulness of these boards as software developers (except 2D paint programmers!) are reluctant to develop software for small volume, nich market, products. Enter the EGS-110/24! Being a GVP product, software developers know that the [ MORE ]