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- From: bizzetti@mbox.vol.it (Fabio Bizzetti)
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- Subject: Re: AB3D II beats Quake....
- Date: 31 Mar 1996 17:16:54 GMT
- Organization: Video On Line
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- >babbage@dmu.ac.uk writes:
- >>
- >> whats the cost of an AGA chipset?
- >> Something like 3$ to produce isnt it?
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- >Well, then, let's see some AGA upgrades for ECS machines, or at
- >least the A3000! Come on, no complaints that "AGA is
- >outdated." It may not equal a CV64, but it is much much much
- >better than ECS, and probably most users still have ECS. I
- >think for $100, they would sell MILLIONS of these things!
- >Besides, 800x600x256 is available in AGA, and that's all I
- >need! That's about all VGA/SVGA does anyway (and even if you
- >*can* do more colors, most Windoze apps ONLY work in 256
- >colors!!!
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- >Patrick
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- I didn't know that just the chips are sufficient to use them.. ;)
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- An ECS board cannot be *converted* into an AGA one; it would be cheaper to
- buy a completely new AGA board instead. And AGA is cheap indeed.
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- Anyway, also if SVGA chips cost less than the phone call to order them, the
- 200MIPS CPU needed to get something not ridicolous from them costs a lot.
-
- Or we would see 8088+SVGA everywhere. :D
-
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