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Thomas Landgraf {tl@hrz-serv7.hrz.uni-kassel.de} posted news first...
He mentions:
 
32MHz Falcon card by GeSoft. Space for 128 megs of RAM, and a VME
slot.  An MPEG decoder from Brainstorm, he says it looked faster than
a PC/Mac.
 
Jon Lovstad {jonal@dhhalden.no} mentions that the VME for that new
card hasn't been implemented yet, Here's his words:
 
"Wasn't that just 32MB of RAM? BTW, they haven't implemented the VME
yet. (I thought the chip looked like a 50MHz thingie from the reading
of the print on it...)"
 
Jon wasn't impressed with the MPEG. "Well, I saw the thing and thought
it sucked. They haven't laid too much work in it yet since they don't
know if Atari buys it or not..."
 
So it seems this GeSoft board is floating on the edge of Rumorland. No
one posted precise information as yet. I've also heard such comments
as "Impossible" describing this board.  But, after the Genie RTC with
Bill, he says it works fine.
 
Jon added a few more bits of info. He mentions a InShape renderer, a
new video-digitizer card by Matrix 8MB VRAM, 8MB DRAM + 1 meg on the
digitizer, ~8000DM. He saw a 32MB TT put a 'base16' (3Kx2K pixels)
PhotoCD onto the screen in 4 minutes.
 
Rune Hyldmo {runehy@dhhalden.no} added more to this thread.
 
Silminaris said they were finished with two Falcon030 specific games.
Transartica and Ishar. Both are 256 color games with 16 bit sound.
Rune only saw Ishar: "It looked good."
 
Vroom II from Lanchor, has a new multiplayer mode with 4 people on the
screen at the same time. Rune didn't see any slow down from this mode.
He mentions Space Junk looked good but was only a demo.
 
Eclipse from Eclipse (3D space game in 320x200 TC) looks smooth, but
the DSP routines aren't implemented yet. The guy at the Eclipse booth
gave a time frame of another 6 months.
 
Atari had a brochure listing products coming out for the Falcon030
too, lots of great software coming out, some is finished.