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- From: jaco@stack.urc.tue.nl (Jaco Schoonen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Which card to choose??
- Date: 13 Mar 1996 14:05:56 +0200
- Organization: MCGV Stack, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.
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- Hans-Joerg Frieden (hfrieden@fix.uni-trier.de) wrote:
- : 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)...
-
- I was referring to the software that only uses the OS routines. Of course
- software that uses the cybergraphics/vilintuisup libraries directly doesn't
- work. But things like FinalWriter, PageStream and lot's of others that use
- standard functions for graphics work fine on every card with a good wb
- emulator. Of course that's only for 8bit applications.
-
- --
- Jaco Schoonen
- (jaco@stack.urc.tue.nl)
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