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- From: kcurrie@on.bell.ca (Kevin Currie)
- Subject: Re: A2410 Graphics Boards
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- Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 21:03:50 GMT
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- PA Williamson (philw@xplor.com) wrote:
- : In article <Dn6z7M.Fw4@bandelier.cs.unm.edu>,
- : iuzzolin@bandelier.cs.unm.edu (Harold Iuzzolino) wrote:
- :
- : > The A2410 is a Zorro-II card. 8-bit color, hi res (about 1024x760).
- : > Looks nice under AMIX, especially with OpenGL programs under Mesa. The
- : > dithering makes it look like a lot more than 256 colors. I haven't found
- : > any software to get it running under AmigaDOS yet, but that doesn't mean
- : > there isn't any.
- :
- :
- : Hey! Me! me! (raising hand) :-)
- :
- : I'm running a 2410 with Workbench and Shapeshifter. EGS 7.2 runs just
- : fine on the a2410. Brian King has written a 2410 driver for Shapeshifter.
- :
- : I run my Workbench at 800*600*256 all the time. I run my Mac emulator at
- : same. All my software runs on it too. Games don't, but I don't play
- : nothing but Fighter Duel.
- :
- : The A2410 does 256 color ( from 16.7 million ) at up to 1024*1024.
-
- The only problem with the A2410 is that it's not too speedy. That's
- why I sold Brian King mine :-)
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