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From: andydeck@MCS.COM (Andrew Deckowitz)
Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Subject: Re: Doom 1.2 with the Matrox's MGA
Date: 9 Aug 1994 23:51:57 -0500
Organization: MCSNet Services
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Message-ID: <329mdd$s49@Mercury.mcs.com>
References: <Cu807H.6AE@matrox.com>
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In <Cu807H.6AE@matrox.com> gmatic@Matrox.com (Goran Matic) writes:
>When is doom going to come out with a version that is fully compatible with the
>Matrox mga, I mean it's the best graphic card in the world. Or very
>close to it. If doom worked on it they could makje a good compastible
>version. If anyone knows anything about this please leave me some mail.
>He who lives sins, he who sins lives, live NOW
>gmatic@Matrox.com
I've got a better question than that, seeing as how you seem
to work for Matrox...
WHY is the developer's information for the MGA chipset sealed up behind
NDAs? This has been cited as the sole reason that the Xfree86 development
team has not released an xserver for MGA (to use with Linux, of course).
And the big question, as far as Doom support goes...
WHY is the VGA chipset on the current MGA cards lamer than a Trident 8900B?!
WHY doesn't the VESA TSR enable the advanced modes of the MGA chipset?
Seems to me that the question you ask above should be asked inside your own
company... the graphics industry has a perfectly good standard in VESA,
just support it. The Matrox cards would probably still be on top of the
heap if the DOS VGA chipset had been worth anything. Instead the cards
end up being distressingly similar to the old co-processored video boards
that required a separate VGA card to operate in DOS. The difference here
of course is that the Matrox card comes with an integrated VGA chipset
that would have to be disabled to allow the use of a decent DOS accelerator.
I believe that the ball is in Matrox' court. As the developer of this new
MGA chipset that is used by no-one else, it is in Matrox' best interests
to make the card as useable as possible by improving its compatibility.
Requiring software vendors to obtain and write to a whole new API is
unrealistic. And I too am buying ATI Mach64s now instead of Matrox Ultras.
--
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