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- From: skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls)
- Subject: Re: X-Pert Systems Domino Board
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.153528.11344@ra.msstate.edu>
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- Organization: University of Mississippi, Dept. of Computer Science
- References: <1992Aug19.002700.5915@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 15:35:28 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug19.002700.5915@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> rickan@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Mark Rickan) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug18.130350.29501@sarah.albany.edu> tw5232@albnyvms.bitnet
- >writes:
- >
- >>Here are the specs directly from Klaus Burket, the person who OWNS this
- >>project...
- >
- >[..]
- >
- >>The product is based on the TSENG 4000 chipset (made immensely famous by
- >>IBM-compatible S-VGA cards)
- >
- >Interesting choice of processor. Does anyone happen to have any information
- >concerning the relative performance of the TSENG chipset to the current
- >alternatives?
-
- It may no longer reign as the fastest of the SVGAs, but it makes for a very
- fast and cheap hi-res/hi-color display. I've been using a 486-33 setup with
- a ~$100 Tseng board and find it to be faster than my A3000 for many operations.
- The only modes that it feels slow in are modes that no Amiga to date can hope
- to match.
-
- >>HiColor in already incorporated into the setup.
- >
- >Nice.
-
- Is this the 32k color mode or the 64k color mode? I now have a 486-50 at
- work with a newer Tseng board that supports 64k colors in up to 800x600
- as well as resolution up to 1280x1024. There are also lots of really weird
- modes that can be programmed in much the same way the ECS can.
-
- >>The important graphics.library calls are patched to work on the board and
- >>they've built the board to appear mostly like the native chipset in terms of
- >>bitplanes, only bigger... (at least it's not copying graphics info from chip
- >>ram.)
- >
- >It will be interesting to see exactly how well this compatibility is
- >integrated into the OS.
-
- Hopefully pretty well. Considering the form factor of the new machines
- from Commodore, I doubt we'll see lots of motherboard swaps and that
- sort of thing. Of course, I'd be willing to Power-Up my A3000 if they
- have an A3000 + $1000 = A4000 campaign. :-) (If it really is called
- an A3400, maybe they'll have an A3000 + $400 = A3400 Power-Up :-)
-
- >>Finally cost is 698 DM in Germany which translates to about $450 US...
- >
- >This is quite really quite reasonable, considering the fact that the market
- >and number of developers in this area has traditionally been quite limited.
-
- It is a rather nice chip and I'd love to able to have the sort of display
- that PC owners have been enjoying for some time at a reasonable price. I
- hope that the company does well enough that their board is supported by a
- number of packages instead of a few oddballs.
-
- >>Hope this helps, please send any questions to burket1@kirk.fmi.uni-passau.de
- >
- >Thanks!
- >
- >Mark
- >
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- > = Mark Rickan ...!uunet!utai!utgpu!maccs!rickan =
- > = DCSS, McMaster University rickan@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca =
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- Skip Sauls
- skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu
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