16 Feb
2023
16 Feb
'23
9:24 p.m.
In article <0fe9f81b-8253-f155-8fb5-16d834bb8272(a)alembic.crystel.com>om>,
"Chris Zach via cctalk" <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> writes:
Going through my stuff I found a Matrox QRGB 6/64-4
card which seems to
be a 512x512x16 color video array for Q bus systems.
This card?
<https://bitsavers.org/pdf/matrox/173-A50-02_QRGB-GRAPH_Colour_Graphics_Controller_Feb84.pdf>
Did any software ever support this thing, and does
anyone want to trade
it for a bean of some sort?
Software would likely be custom for the card. DEC did have an
implementation of GKS for VMS and had the ability for users to write
their own GKS drivers for custom hardware, which would give you a portable
API that could use the hardware if such a driver were available.
This card's resolution is comparable to a mid 80s Tektronix raster
terminal, such as the Tek 4207 or Tek 4205. The terminals have a much
more sophisticated command set than this card, however.
<https://terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php/Tektronix_4205>
<https://terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php/Tektronix_4207>
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