Hardware accelerated, two megabyte display board supports high resolution,
high color graphics

San Francisco, Calif. -- June 1, 1992 -- Video Dynamics today announced the
XTC/2000, a hardware accelerated, "true color" graphic display adapter for
IBM PCs and PC compatibles. Supporting two megabytes of video display
memory, the XTC/2000 can display up to 256 colors at 1280 x 1024
resolution, up to 65,536 colors at 800 x 600 resolution, and up to 16.7
million colors at 640 x 480 resolution. In addition to its extended "true
color" features, the XTC/2000 also incorporates a hardware accelerated
graphics coprocessor that significantly accelerates a range of common GUI
operations.

The XTC/2000's extended high color features are optimized for the display
of "true color" photo-realistic images for photographic and video imaging
applications, multiple "high color" images for multi-media and Windows,
and a "pseudo-color" VGA palette at ultra-high resolution for Windows,
X-Windows and CAD. Using the XTC/2000's 24-bit "true color" mode, scanned
images or frame-grabbed video can be displayed in up to sixteen million
photo-realistic colors. With the board's 16-bit, extended resolution,
sixty-five thousand color mode, multiple images or image windows can be
simultaneously displayed without the color distortion generated by a
shared palette. And at ultrahigh 1280 x 1024 "workstation" resolution, the
on-board color palette supports up to 256 colors from a palette of 262,144
instead of the usual 16 color limit.

The XTC/2000's high performance graphics coprocessor implements a range of
accelerated graphic drawing functions in high speed hardware, including
Bitblt, Line Draw, Area Fill, and Color Expansion. The hardware graphics
coprocessor accelerates the speed of critical graphics functions by more
than ten times the speed of standard Super VGA, significantly enhancing
the performance of graphically intensive applications.

The XTC/2000 board comes with software drivers for a variety of popular
applications including AutoCAD, Windows 3.0 and 3.1, Digital Research GEM,
X-Windows X11R5, Lotus 1-2-3, Ventura Publisher, WordPerfect, plus several
popular CAD packages. In addition the board features full backwards
compatibility with earlier PC display formats including VGA, EGA, CGA, and
MDA, ensuring that all standard software can run without modification.

According to Joshua Weinstein, Director of Sales at Video Dynamics, "The
rapid growth in video imaging and multi-media applications on the PC has
created a need for high resolution, high color accelerated graphics,
previously available only with more expensive specialized display boards.
The Video Dynamics XTC/2000 board now meets this need with a fully
featured, high performance, "true color" graphics board at a significantly
lower cost."

Video Dynamics' XTC2000 board with accelerated, true color drivers is
shipping now at a suggested retail price of $399 in a one megabyte
configuration, and $499 with a full two megabytes of video RAM. Further
product information plus quantity, OEM and reseller pricing is available
from Video Dynamics, Inc., 1550 Bryant Street, San Francisco, CA 94103,
phone 1-800-243-3527; 415/863-3023; Fax: 415/863 2979

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