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- From: de351@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (K. C. Lee)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: SVGA as standard (was Re: New Press Release!)
- Date: 26 Mar 1996 17:16:39 GMT
- Organization: The National Capital FreeNet
- Sender: de351@freenet3.carleton.ca (K. C. Lee)
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- "Jolyon Ralph" (jralph@cix.compulink.co.uk) writes:
- >
- > I think that would be essential for a new 'low-end' Amiga (a low-end
- > Amiga won't have PCI slots as standard anyway - although theoretically
- > they could be added).
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- Yeap. I would recommend the Vesa local bus as a low end video expansion.
- It is based on the 486 CPU bus and is a lot easier/cheaper to implement
- than PCI and most of the SVGA accelerator chipset support both PCI & Vesa
- without additional glue chips anyway.
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- > be upgraded and replaced. Or if the chips are cheap enough, leave them on
- > the motherboard and have a PCI card with new chips override them.
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- Or it would be nice to have multiple monitor support...
- >
- > If games developers have to support all third party SVGA cards, then some
- > form of CyberDirectX or CyberSpecialFX.library is required so that games
- > developers and demo writers can access the core features of these
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- > Jolyon
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- K. C. Lee
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