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- From: gvernaev@eduserv.rug.ac.be (Geert Vernaeve)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Question to all amiga programs
- Date: 9 Feb 1996 16:25:54 GMT
- Organization: University of Ghent, Belgium
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- John Oliver Maurice (jmauric@hubcap.clemson.edu) wrote:
- : Is it possible to access PC cards connected to the amiga
- : via Workbench 3.1 WITHOUT an emulator or 3rd party board
- : such as a bridgeboard, emplant, etc.?
-
- I think the answer is definitely NO because the PC slots aren't connected
- physically to the Amiga bus. To acces the PC slots, you need a card that
- plugs into both Amiga (Zorro) and PC buses, which is by definition, a
- "bridgeboard"...
-
- : If the amiga wants to
- : stay alive, programmers need to write software which can harness
- : the power of low-cost PC hardware connected to the amiga. For
- : example, if I connect a Diamond Stealth graphics card to the amiga,
- : can I use it to display 24-bit video WITHOUT a bridgeboard? If not,
- : how can we remedy the situation so that in the future the amiga can?
-
- As I said, it's impossible because of hardware reasons...
- However, future Amigas are believed to contain a PCI bus, so in that
- case, we'll hopefully able to use cheap PC hardware.
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