Specifications (Falcon030)
- Processor: Motorola 68030 at 16 MHz with MMU and 256 byte instruction and data caches.
- FPU: optional Motorola 68881 or Motorola 68882, PLCC socket
- DSP: Motorola 56001 DSP chip at 32 MHz (16 MIPS).
- Graphics: "VIDEL" fully programmable video controller.
- Palette of 262,144 possible colours (18 bit), 256 new color registers
- Bitplane modes of 2, 16 or 256 colors (1 .. 8 bit)
- Chunky 15-bit truecolor mode
- RGB output can feed either 15 kHz RGB monitor or TV, old Atari SM124 monitor or a VGA monitor
- Despite the capabilities of the Videl, the plain TOS allows user to choice only a few resolutions up to 640×480 (or even less in the case 16-bit mode and VGA). In order to achieve the full potential of the Videl one have to use one of the numerous existing alternative utilities, such as "Videlity", "Videl Inside", "Blow UP" etc..
- BLiTTER graphics co-processor at 16 MHz (mainly for the backward compatibility with STE)
- Backwards compatible with all ST resolutions.
- Audio:
- 16-bit audio input and output up to 50 kHz - 8 stereo channels
- SDMA sound/DMA Co-processor
- Yamaha Y3439-F 3 Channel PSG (for the backward compatibility with ST)
- Memory: 1, 4, or 14 MB of RAM with 512 kB ROM.
- Bus Speed: 16 MHz, Bus width: 16 bit
- Drives and I/O
- 2.5 inch IDE - internal
- 1.44 MB 3.5 inch PC compatible Floppy disk - internal
- External SCSI-II connector
- MIDI IN and OUT
- 2x serial ports
- Bidirectional LPT port
- DSP port with I²S buses for external expansions as ADCs/DACs, S/PDIF or ADAT interfaces
- 2× 9-pin mouse/joystick ports
- 2× analog joystick (compatible with STE and Jaguar)
- ROM/Cartridge port used mainly by dongles and some expansion cards
- LocalTalk compatible Local area network port
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