Bell & Howell Apple II update

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Fri Jan 25 22:33:21 2002

Yeah ... I remember hearing about those Targa boards. That's derived from an
AT&T product, isn't it?

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Franchuk" <bfranchuk_at_jetnet.ab.ca>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 1:30 AM
Subject: Re: Bell & Howell Apple II update


> Richard Erlacher wrote:
> >
> > What meant by that was that the PC didn't put out standard NTSC
(interlaced)
> > video but something considerably less than that. IIRC, the Amiga was
capable
> > of interlaced display. Consequently, they were frequently used for
titling
> > "educational" (read limited-budget) productions, which is often quite
obvious.
> > The PC didn't support the functions necessary for such titling, though I
> > suppose one could have written a smooth-scrolling utility easily enough.
> > Summing the titles with an external video stream was not on the menu for
PC's,
> > though.
> Often they used a TARGA 16 board there for digital video and editing.
> That was is 512 pixels wide 15 bit color, 1 bit for video overlay.
> I have two kicking around here. DOS only -- never had a video drive for
> windows. They later moved to Mac products.
>
> > Dick
>
>
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