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- From: burkert1@platon.fmi.uni-passau.de (Klaus Burkert)
- Subject: Re: X-Pert Systems Domino Board
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.000006.25551@tom.rz.uni-passau.de>
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- Organization: University of Passau, W-Germany
- References: <1992Aug19.002700.5915@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <1992Aug19.153528.11344@ra.msstate.edu>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 00:00:06 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug19.153528.11344@ra.msstate.edu> skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls) writes:
- >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... ^^^^^^
-
- This is misspelled, please use my address in the signature for mail, our
- sysops will thank you
-
- [..]
- >>>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.
-
- To my knowledge the Tseng is still the fastest NONACCELERATED vga-chip around.
- The other ones gain their performance only from some functions which provide
- a very restricted subset of the native Amiga-Blitter's instructions, but they
- lose heavily in transfers over the system-bus.
-
- >>>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.
-
- It is the 32K color mode since the RAMDAC we're using doesn't support more
- colors (Sierra SC11483).
-
- Ciao, Klaus.
-
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