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- From: sschaem@teleport.com (Stephan Schaem)
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- Subject: Re: AB3D II beats Quake....
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- Date: 27 Mar 1996 17:57:27 GMT
- Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016
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- Bert Dorhout (dorhout@swisun30) wrote:
- : In order for AT/AmigaOS to use standard video cards of today more optimal
- : than other OSs, isn't it necessary to 'dictate' minimum specifications
- : for the video card??
- : Like... "The Walker takes standard PCI video cards with at least a blitter,
- : chipset type X (f.i. S3) or type Y (triton.. Is that a graph set anyway?
- : (just an example, though))", that kind of thing?
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- All that would be needed is that you can set pixel to the video memory
- somehow. But the card can 'register' all its feature to the OS for
- acceleration, video modes/capabilities.
- You should be a able to write a video driver to work throught the
- parallel port connected to a A500, and also maybe via the serial port
- connected to a PC... So you can open a window in a Win95 window and
- open a window on a A500 screen :)
- The design can be very elaborate, complex to design
-
- Stephan
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