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- From: videoking@mbox200.swipnet.se (Johan Otterstrom)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Haynie joins AT team
- Date: 25 Mar 96 19:34:00 -500
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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.
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- >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.
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- >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.
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- >> / Jonas Elfstrom (5+ rows .sigs sux) jonas@plea.se \
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- >K. C. Lee
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- A bit off topic?
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