From: broehl@sunee.uwaterloo.ca (Bernie Roehl) Subject: Re: INFO: 3DO Multiplayer Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1993 19:54:36 GMT Message-ID: Organization: University of Waterloo In article <729966155snz@cryton.demon.co.uk> altman@cryton.demon.co.uk (Hugo Fiennes) writes: >>Might make an interesting low-end VR platform... >Low-end? According to the specs I saw [...] I think the person you're quoting meant "low-end" in terms of price, not performance. >each of the 2 graphics engines will >peak at 64 million pixels/second, and it's designed to deal with shading, etc >in hardware. I hadn't heard it had 2 graphics engines, rather one graphics chip and a RISC processor. I also hadn't heard that it could do shading -- just realtime texture-mapping. > It has no screen memory - it decompresses the compressed >screens (which are manipulated in compressed form) direct to video-DACs. I'd heard it had a (small!) 64 kbyte frame buffer. -- Bernie Roehl University of Waterloo Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering Mail: broehl@sunee.UWaterloo.ca Voice: (519) 885-1211 x 2607 [work]