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- From: manou.billa@ci.educ.lu (Manou BILLA)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.marketplace,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: A2410 Graphics Boards
- Date: 24 Feb 1996 00:18:42 GMT
- Organization: Not organized
- Message-ID: <2275.6627T291T233@ci.educ.lu>
- References: <953.6626T125T46@ix.netcom.com>
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- On 22-Feb-96 08:05:00, Scott Piercy (spiercy@ix.netcom.com) wrote to All ()
- about A2410 Graphics Boards (<953.6626T125T46@ix.netcom.com>):
-
- Hi Scott
-
- >I've seen alot of software coming available for the old a2410 (Lowell)
- >graphics boards. I know these were not a hot item, when C= was selling them
- >because AMIX did so poorly on the commercial market (yet another C= screwup).
- >I digress.....
-
- >Anyway, are these things still available? I'd be interested in obtaining one
- >if the price is right?
-
- The A2410 was still available from Hirsch & Wolf in Germany last November, so I
- think they still are! I bought mine for about DM 200 = $140 one year ago from
- them. At the AMIGA '95 in Cologne they were sold for DM 150 = $100.
-
-
-
- >Was the a2410 a ZorroII card or a video slot card? If it's a video slot card,
- >then I'd be interested in selling my C=2320 Flicker Fixer.
-
- It is a true ZORRO II card. The video slot is not used!
- If you do change the clock speed on the card it can display up to 1024x1024x8
- pixels.
- Mine can do resolutions from 640x480x8 to 1024x1024x8! Other res are possible!
- At the moment I do run my WB with a 1024x768x8 res. using the EGS TIGA driver
- version 2 from Aminet. Even ShapeShifter works with this driver.
- You can open several screens with different resolutions.
- The speed of the card is comparable to that one of the RETINA 2 card.
- The Picasso 2 is definetly faster.
- According to WSPEED (GFXboard test software) the A2410 runs always the same
- speed independent of the number of colors used! 8 colors are as fast as 256
- colors.
-
- I will buy the CyberGFX package to try it with the A2410.
- But it seems that there's NO speed advantage, only compatibility advantages-
-
- --
- Bye Manou
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