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- From: etxzayl@cate1.ericsson.se (Johan Zeylon IN/SA/BIB)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: A3000 and AGA emulation?
- Date: 4 Jan 1996 18:22:11 GMT
- Organization: Ericsson Telecom AB
- Distribution: world
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- In article 6573T4T1265@Th0r.foo.bar, christon (Christopher Naas) writes:
- >D.R. Ward wrote:
- >
- >>I've heard that it is possible for some graphics cards to emulate AGA.
- >>Is this true?
- >To some extent, yes.
- >
- >
- >>If so, what degree of AGA compatibility do they offer? Could I boot an
- >>AGA game from an NDOS disk?
- >No. What they do is offer you screenmodes (added to the screenmode database)
- >for up to 8 bitplanes. (CGraphX offers 15, 16 and 24 bit resolutions as well).
- >Programs that use the system displaydatabase (i.e. programs that you multitask
- >and run from Workbench) will work with this.
- >
- >
- >>What cards are available to produce this emulation? What is their
- >>new/used prices?
- >Any card that has CGraphX support. That's basically all cards out there except
- >the RetinaZ2, I think (please correct me if I'm wrong).
- >
- >
- >>Are there any other options to get AGA from an A3000?
- >Short of buying a new computer - no.
- >
-
- It DOES exsist an AGA upgrade for the A3000. (sic)
- You remove some of the chips on the motherboard and plug it in, it has
- surface mounted components so it will not inhibit usage of Zorro cards
- in the lowest slot.
- But IMHO it is not worth the money it costs, you can get a standard
- 24bit graphics card (PicassoII) for a lower price.
-
- /Johan
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