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- From: Lee@burst.demon.co.uk (Lee Huggett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1996 15:07:44 GMT
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- > On 6 Apr 1996 17:10:17 GMT, nilo@login.dknet.dk (Nicolai Thilo) wrote:
-
- >>In article <315a0646.3201934@news.onramp.net>, David Corn (dcorn@paradise.p
- >>
- >>>>You plug hardware in on an AMiga, copy the device driver to the devs
- >>>>directory, and you are done.
- >>
- >>>Really? You're telling me that's what you did to get the graphics
- >>>card working? I don't think so.
-
- Yeah? have you tried it David?
-
- maybe the question you should be asking is
- "What experiance do YOU have?"
-
- That is EXACTLY what I did when I put my CV64 card in.
-
- > Sigh. On an Amiga, you cannot simply "copy a device driver to devs"
- > and have it all work. If you think you can, you REALLY need to
- > rethink things - there's a LOT more to it than that. Win95 is far
- > easier to set up with another graphics card.
-
- I'm presuming you don't have an Amiga David?
- as you obviously don't know what you are talking about..
-
- The whole point of the DEVS/DOSDRIVERS drawer is that you can drop things in
- there and get them next time you boot..
-
- Same with montior and display drivers, drop them into DEVS/MONITORS and get them
- next time you boot..
-
- Why are you arguing about something you know nothing about?
-
-
- >>believe that 640x400 is the max NI resolution on a stock Amiga, and
- >>you still think that because *you* don't want to use a 72Hz 800x600
- >>interlaced display then no one else can be happy with it.
-
- > If you don't mind it being painfully slow 'even' on AGA Amigas, more
- > power to you.
-
- It is only slow if you put it into 256 colours.. anything up to 64 colours and
- it runs fine.. and before you start 64 colours is fine for a computer without a
- graphics card..
-
- Pull you GFX card out of your PC and see how far you get..
-
- Lee
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