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- Path: nntp.teleport.com!sschaem
- From: sschaem@teleport.com (Stephan Schaem)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Date: 13 Apr 1996 16:55:47 GMT
- Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016
- Message-ID: <4komaj$r5l@nadine.teleport.com>
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- Finn Higgins (finnh@ak.planet.gen.nz) wrote:
- : >On 8 Apr 1996 15:57:22 GMT, c948374@hald.gbar.dtu.dk (Rask Ingemann
- : >Lambertsen) wrote:
-
- : >>> >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.
- : >>
- : >>Why not? Don't tell me you are *that* ignorant.
-
- : >So you're honestly telling me you can copy a single file from a floppy
- : >disk to DEVS: and your graphics card magically starts working?
-
- : >You're dreaming.
-
- : Don''t you listen to anything anyone says? The CV64 (the only card I have
- : has experince with) does just that. The whole purpose of the DEVS:monitors
- : directory is to do just that. You install a new monitor driver, it will
- : support it. This may sound like a dream for a PC user, but it is reality on
- : the Amiga.
-
- Doesn't this card require more then monitors setting info file to work?
- You have to know that all those card uses hacks really to comeby the]
- dowfall of intuition/graphics.library, didn't you run some instalation
- program after you installed the card? to copy lets say file related to
- cybergraphics?
-
- I just want to relate my experience on PC... plug the GFX card...
- and it just work under dos, windows. You have to give credit for this
- to the VGA/SVGA standart, such standart do not exist on the amiga.
- Most card today include alot more then this, so to get full use of the
- card chipset you install its specific driver.
- BTW, windows do privide a monitor file system... but the smart thing
- about it is that it describe the monitor :) The video mode are selected
- from the video card setting and take into account the monitor limitation.
- (there is also tools to edit/create monitor setting)
-
-
- Stephan
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