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- From: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Stupid question of the week: Why not a VGA card in your A2
- Message-ID: <10272@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 13:09:15 GMT
- References: <1992Dec13.030321.19353@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA>
- Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
- Organization: Commodore Germany
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- In article <1992Dec13.030321.19353@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA> tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran) writes:
- >In article <Boinger.07nc@myamy.hacktic.nl> boinger@myamy.hacktic.nl
- >(Paul Kolenbrander) writes:
- >
- >>> 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?
-
- Yes it will! Please note that "II" in the name of the board. The first
- version didn't have any RAM space to share with the PC side, so no VGA
- was indeed possible. But version II does provide this and David has
- already confirmed that everything is prepared for a VGA card. Paul is
- completely right that it's "only" a question of a proper driver to let
- this thing fly :-).
-
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