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- Path: FreeNet.Carleton.CA!de351
- From: de351@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (K. C. Lee)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Haynie joins AT team
- Date: 23 Mar 1996 17:00:15 GMT
- Organization: The National Capital FreeNet
- Sender: de351@freenet3.carleton.ca (K. C. Lee)
- Message-ID: <4j1amv$6si@freenet-news.carleton.ca>
- References: <14FEF421@cu-amiga.demon.co.uk> <4inrtg$hlp@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4itcta$lpa@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> <31534181.2D9D@plea.se>
- Reply-To: de351@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (K. C. Lee)
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- >> Don't forget the "Amiga God" has the opinion to go totally standard and
- >> scrap all Amigaish hardware and just go with the OS.
-
- Nothing wrong with that. The PC hardware has gone a long way. As long as the
- hardware-god-person (eg. Dave H.) does the usual magic, you'll still have
- cool Amiga hardware.
-
- Jonas Elfstrom (jonas@plea.se) writes:
- > In the Compuserve (you can read it at Amiga Web Directory) conference
- > Haynie stated that it should be no problem to get a vertical blanking interupt
- > and other goodies from the current SVGA chip-sets but the PCs aren't using
- > those features.
-
- Yeap. Like running the Sync signal through a couple of gates to interrupt
- lines. Done. :)
-
- > I think that 15kHz should be possible to.
-
- Most of these chips have programmable V & H rates. As long as they can go
- down to 15KHz, you are set. Otherwise it jsut a matter of hacking in a
- divider somewhere. It is always easier to halve the scan rate than to
- double it.
-
- > / Jonas Elfstrom (5+ rows .sigs sux) jonas@plea.se \
-
- K. C. Lee
-
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