ZX-News #18 08 декабря 1996

Концепции

Iron - General Vision - advanced graphics capabilities.

                  Iron



              (C) Paul Smith



             GENERAL VISION.


    Hi all users Speccy!


  In ZxNew No 7 has been suggested that discussion
Project General Vision.


  In addition, in the same issue discusses the new Peters'e 
with advanced graphics capabilities. 


  ... And then there Profi and ATM-2 ...


  ... Do not be surprised if it turns out that for
Scorpion and KAY'ya done its something like that, as always 
with anything else is not compatible ... 


  So we will soon catch up and surpass the number of existing 
PC to Speccy video! : (



  Is it time to stop?


  No, I have both arms and legs) for the new system, but is it 
worth to try producers of iron at least once an agreement and 
do something one example repeat for the other 
Spectrum-compatible, say, the video system of the same Peters'a?



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  By the way, could you elaborate on the new Peters'e? On its 
capabilities, the estimated cost? Will sold-minded board of 
this computer? Etc. etc. 


                  Sincerely, Paul Smith.



  From the Editor: Finally! And then we have been waiting 
letters to General Vision'a, even as some began to forget about 
the good, in general, the idea ... 


  The problem was the graphics capabilities of the Spectrum, 
is, and, IMHO, will remain forever. Is likely, and will not 
create a single standard: Sergei Zonov not want adapt to the 
Pentagon, KAY and Peter's unwilling to adapt to the Scorpion, 
and Company Condor, according to recent data, generally

scored on the Profi and sells Amiga ... Another thing is that 
everything done by one major producer, sooner or later makes

other or do something similar, or
something else, but more needs to be _gorazdo_
users.


  I think that if Peters will fly well because of the graphics, 
the same skorpionschiki sooner or later zacheshutsya and do 
something similar to Scorp'a.



  And most importantly - the lack of standards should not be 
forced to suffer the same Users ...



  Returning to the GV. That the user is better
and simpler: buy a new computer, even a fancy, but a million, 
or plug in system connector small shawl, which

cost somewhere in the sixty thousand, and if there is a place 
where you can cheaply Boards slack off, so even cheaper?



  If you create _GV_, with heavy reliance
on schedule, then this "thing" is not exactly
go: no soft would not write. Other
business - "Text Mode". Snapped tumblerochkom -
normal screen, again clicked - here's
and 80 characters per line, both on the same PC.
Especially because soft remake - a couple of
hours for each editor to spend. And what is more convenient to 
work ... Just imagine: letter size 8x8

pixels, and line sivmolov eighty
pieces!


  So while the idea of ​​GV and postponed indefinitely due to 
the fact that there is no this time (yet), sooner or later, 
perhaps, someone will do it. 


           We wish him good luck!


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