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- From: Paul Chan <paul>
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- Subject: Re: AT's new modular Amiga
- Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 11:21:49 GMT
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- mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst) wrote:
- >Paul Chan <paul> writes:
- >
- >>serial is *very* nice (I could definately use the second parallel port for my
- >>digitiser),
- >
- >Don't expect that digitizer programs will use the second port. Such programs are
- >all "hardware banging" and break with different hardware.
-
- I`m assuming that the OS will cater for the second parallel port as par1: or
- something. In other words, older programs can assume that the first parallel
- port is where it is, but newer stuff (like networking?) are aware that the
- second parallel port is not par:
-
- I`m thinking of the output panel in Propage that allowed you to redirect
- postscript to par: ser: or disk: - I would then just select par1: and the
- printou comes out of the laser connected to the extra bi-directional port. The
- digitiser can stay blissfully unaware in the original port and any older
- programs can be caught and redirected via a Printmanager type of program.
-
- That`s in an ideal world of course, if AT could pull this bit of software off
- I`d be impressed.
-
- >
- >>Any word on being able to force 30kHz output only (as with the A3000?) I could
- >>do with being able to use an SVGA monitor rather than be stuck with the
- >>relatively poor Microvitec efforts if only to be able to access higher bandwith
- >>than 38kHz for use with the Cybervision64 card.
- >
- >Since that's the AGA chipset you are able to use 15kHz modes. Of course these modes
- >could be hidden by the operating system but the "products" of our beloved c00l c0d3rz
- >give shit to the OS and to the users wishes. No chance there.
-
- Didn`t Dave Haynie say that 30kHz output was simply a case of setting up
- something in the ROM, or using a couple of spare pins on one of the custom
- chips? Surely that`s not much to do hgiven the cost savings we`d have by buying
- cheap SVGA monitors over the poor multisyncs we are stuck with at the moment?
-
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