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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Path: cix.compulink.co.uk!usenet
- From: jralph@cix.compulink.co.uk ("Jolyon Ralph")
- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
- Message-ID: <Dou4tu.2B5@cix.compulink.co.uk>
- Organization: Compulink Information eXchange
- References: <Don31u.8Fo@info.uucp>
- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 18:03:30 GMT
- X-News-Software: Ameol32
-
- > I think a much smarter move would be to simply include a PCI slot as
- > standard so that people could go downtown to the 7-11 and select their
- > own PCI graphics card.
-
- .. and bang goes any incentive for publishers to develop new software to
- take advantage of new hardware. If it isn't fitted as standard, no-one
- will use it... (and a motherboard SVGA chipset will work out cheaper than
- a PCI card and associoated slot and other necessary electronics, etc..)
-
- > I'm sure that PhaseV would be happy to write
- > CyberGraphx drivers for a few of the popular PCI cards...
-
- Would it not be better, financially, for PhaseV to do exactly the
- opposite? Write one driver for one speicific card, and make everyone buy
- the card and driver from them. They'd make more money that way. (I'm not
- saying this is likely. They did, after all, release CyberGraphX for some
- other gfx boards, something they need not have done.)
-
- My only criticism of CyberGraphX is that there is no way for third
- parties to write CyberGraphX drivers for their own products. If you want
- your GFX card supported by CyberGraphX then it is entirely up to PhaseV
- as to whether they will bother to write a driver or not.
-
- I understand they have legitimate commercial considerations, but if
- CyberGraphX is going to be the retargetable graphics system for the
- future Amigas (and I don't see any reason why it shouldn't be) it MUST be
- opened up so that ANYONE can write CyberGraphX drivers for their
- favourite PCI cards.
-
- Otherwise you'll see one or two PCI drivers, and we'll all be stuck using
- obsolete video cards while we wait for the drivers to catch up...
-
- Of course, if the SVGA chipset was fitted as standard to the motherboard
- and PhaseV wrote drivers for that (which were included with the OS), the
- need for plenty of third-party drivers for other cards would not be as
- great...
-
- Jolyon - Almathera
-
-