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   Mark McDougall to Knut   
   Re: high resolution board auction.   
   27 Sep 06 23:15:05   
   
   From: msmcdoug@no.spam.iinet   
      
   Knut wrote:   
      
   > Unfortunately I can't promise anything in the way of games. My programs from   
   > back then are either 3D or graphs but we will see.   
      
   That reminds me, whilst the 4P was still my primary machine I was taking   
   "Advanced Computer Graphics" at uni, and we had a ray-tracing assignment -   
   this was back when not many people knew how to do it.   
      
   Our program only had to handle spheres and an infinite checkerboard plane,   
   and I ended up writing the first draft of the assignment on the 4P hires   
   board - using 3 colours (2 plus 1 dithered) and limited to a single   
   reflection. I wrote it using Turbo Pascal under Montezuma CP/M with hires   
   graphics primitives I wrote for pascal in assembler. It looked pretty   
   impressive for its time! I think I even have the disks somewhere...   
      
   > I hope there will be no problems in installing the card. Good thing they   
   > include a demonstration floppy.   
      
    From memory it's one socket and a single IC clip?   
      
   Regards,   
      
   --   
   |              Mark McDougall                | "Electrical Engineers do it   
   |     |   with less resistance!"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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