New ST models?

[Greg Corson]

There was a short note in this month's BYTE magazine mentioning that Atari had
released a 2 and 4 megabyte version of the ST in europe somewhere. Does anyone
out there (ATARI??) have some more information on this? The new machine was
said to have a bit-blit chip. I would be very interested to know if there
are any new graphics modes with more colors/higher resolutions.

Greg Corson
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[Neil Harris]

In article <1...@ndmath.UUCP>, mi...@ndmath.UUCP (Greg Corson) writes:
> There was a short note in this month's BYTE magazine mentioning that Atari
> had released a 2 and 4 megabyte version of the ST in europe somewhere.
> Does anyone out there (ATARI??) have some more information on this? The
> new machine was said to have a bit-blit chip. I would be very interested
> to know if there are any new graphics modes with more colors/higher
> resolutions.

No word will be forthcoming on hardware products until they pass FCC.

The blit chip (which will be available as a ~$120 upgrade to older ST's)
will not add new resolutions -- it is not an upgrade to the video shifter,
it is a chip chich performs bit block memory transfers.

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