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- From: dvsg0223@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (David Salamon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Stupid question of the week: Why not a VGA card in your A2
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- Date: 16 Dec 92 04:36:36 GMT
- References: <1992Dec13.030321.19353@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA> <Boinger.07si@myamy.hacktic.nl>
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- Boinger@myamy.hacktic.nl (Paul Kolenbrander) writes:
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- >In article <1992Dec13.030321.19353@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA> tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran) writes:
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- >> >> It already has been done: the GoldenGate II (not to be confused with
- >> >> Vortex's "Golden Gate" products) from David Salamon.
- >> >Hmm. tell me, who's writing the driver for it? This would mean my
- >> >386 would lose it's ET-4000 sVGA card to Amy PDQ. :-)
- >>
- >> Sorry, the Golden Gate won't allow you to do this. Besides, without RTG,
- >> how would you display Workbench?
-
- >Are you sure we are talking about the same GoldenGate II? I am
- >pretty sure the docs mention that it is possible. And displaying
- >the WB could be done in the same way as those German Domino and
- >Retina cards do it
-
- I think we have some name confusion here. The GoldenGateII bridgecard is
- my Amiga-to-PC bus interface board. It can indeed use a VGA or SuperVGA,
- etc. card to display graphics, and when Retargetable Graphics (RTG) becomes
- available you WILL be able to use your entire workbench through the VGA card at
- full Zorro bus speed. Note that my board merely acts as a bus translator,
- and has no microprocessor.
-
- The "Golden Gate" 386/486 bridgeboard from Vortex is an ordinary bridgeboard
- with a CPU. Vortex stole my board's name and refused to change it when I wrote
- them about a year ago. The Vortex board acts as a PC emulator and does not
- pass the bus through. Therefore, you will NOT be able to display your
- workbench through any VGA card you plug in, only the display from your PC
- programs.
-
- David
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- David Salamon Physics Graduate Student (Slave)
- d-salamon@uiuc.edu University of Illinois
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