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#Sierra RAMDAC

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#533From: john kolesarJul 22, 1991 1:23 AM
Does anyone know if the new Animator Pro will support the Sierra RAMDAC Highcolor chip? Wouldn't that be great to see an animation in a few thousand colors? When will the upgrade to Pro be available anyway?
#573From: Brad Ek [Panacea]Jul 23, 1991 8:20 AM
Animator Pro includes support for standard VGA and also SVGA through the VESA driver. There will not be support for the Sierra HiColor RAM/DAC, although it is entirely possible that you may be able to find HiColor support from 3rd party ADI developers such as ourselves. I think that you may find that speed will be a big problem with Animator Pro running in a HiColor mode. You'll be fetching twice as much data from your hard drive and sending twice as much out to the VGA.