Hydra 2

FredBlais

While reading the propeller forum on news about the future version of the propeller with 16cogs@160mips

Chip Gracey said...
[noparse][[/noparse]...] All video is maintained internally as 5:5:5 RGB and there is hardware colorspace conversion for PAL/NTSC. Also, thanks to Andre LaMothe's input, we've got texture mapping, pixel lighting, and alpha blending with auto-incrementing pointers -- all in one instruction. So, we should be able to do neat 3D polygon rendering.[noparse][[/noparse]...]

Does this means that there will be a second version of the Hydra with blazing speed and 3d rendering? Did Andre started to work on a new Hydra game console?

Post Edited (FredBlais) : 1/12/2009 6:53:46 AM GMT

Paul Baker

They've been in communication hence the video specific improvements you've pointed out, but there's no engineering samples of the chip yet and the dev environment Chip uses is quite expensive. So I would imagine there hasn't been any real develpment on a Hydra-2 yet, though perhaps I'm mistaken.

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