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- From: birjt@cc.newcastle.edu.au
- Subject: Re: FAQ? Will be there AGA chips in A3000?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.123855.1@cc.newcastle.edu.au>
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- Organization: University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA
- References: <1689E79F7.AKURCZYN@itesmvf1.rzs.itesm.mx>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 01:38:55 GMT
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- In article <1689E79F7.AKURCZYN@itesmvf1.rzs.itesm.mx>, AKURCZYN@itesmvf1.rzs.itesm.mx (Alejandro J. Kurczyn S.) writes:
- > I have heard that the new AGA chips are not compatible with the A3000, also
- > that by means of a zorroIII card they might be installed on such computer,
- > my question is this: Is it possible to have the new graphic modes of the
- > AGA chips, and the OS v3.0 on the A3000?
- >
- > Thanks for any information you may have...
-
- From what I have gathered from here, the AGA chips will not go into an A3000
- and currently cannot go into a slot (tight timing etc.). Someone recently said
- that there will be an OS3.0 upgrade for non-AGA machine so they will get some
- extra speed from the rewritten graphics.lib, but no extra colours.
-
- I was a bit peeved, when I heard about the no retrofit AGA stuff but Dave H.
- dropped some hints about what was going into OS4.0, such as DIG and display
- postscript. So, if this does happen (within the next 12 months or so) I think
- you should be able to fit any graphics card you like or can afford. The idea of
- display postscript, hopefully as a screen mode, sounds wunnerful.
-
- Remember, have fun,
-
- Russell
-
- >
- > -Alejandro Kurczyn
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