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- From: hfrieden@fix.uni-trier.de (Hans-Joerg Frieden)
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- Subject: Re: Which card to choose??
- Date: 12 Mar 1996 14:27:07 GMT
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- Jaco Schoonen (jaco@stack.urc.tue.nl) wrote:
- : For other programs: If it runs on 1 gfx card, it runs on all gfx cards. Only
- : well-written programs do so of course.
- Ahem, no, not quite. If it uses cybergraphics library directly, it won't
- run on a native picasso display. If it uses vilintuisup.library, it
- probably won't run on a CV64. OK, there is a vilintuisup replacement
- shipped with CyberGfx, but I don't know what they thought they were doing
- there, practically nothing runs with this (either double buffering does
- not work, or the 24 bit color model is wrong, resulting in a garbled
- display)...
-
- : think there's going to be much more software for it. The speed diffreence is
- : fasr more important than the egs-matter I think. Besides the CV64 is Zorro3,
- : the Picasso is Zorro2, and the SPectrum both. The spectrum is out of
- : production btw.
- Right, in a Zorro3 system, the CV64 is the way to go... it is MUCH faster
- than a Picasso...
-
- Regards, Hans-Joerg.
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