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- From: derrick@sdc.com (Derrick Davis)
- Subject: Re: Game Machine
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.190507.2534@sdc.com>
- Keywords: hardware
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- Organization: Systems Development Corporation
- References: <1992Aug19.172136.4929@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Aug20.001209.26607@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <1992Aug20.202632.18345@ichips.intel.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 19:05:07 GMT
- Lines: 42
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- In article <1992Aug20.202632.18345@ichips.intel.com> sstrazdu@vulcan.intel.com (Stephen Strazdus) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug20.001209.26607@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> c60a-zh@volga.Berkeley.EDU (A L L E N --LabA) writes:
- >>The perfect game machine (at the moment)
- >>
- >>486/66dx2
- >>64 megs of ram (so you can run everything off ram disk)
- >>Soundblaster Pro
- >>Local Bus graphics card
- >>> 1gig HD w/ hardware cache
- >
- >Don't forget a CD-ROM player
- >
- >>
- >>---------------------
- >>I have a 486/33 with a generic Tseng SVGA card, and it's ok right now
- >>for games, but I'm not sure if it'll do Strike Commander when it comes out!
- >>I understand that Ultima 7 will run slowly on my machine...
- >>
- >>Maybe I should upgrade the video to an Orchid Farenheit 1280 or a Diamond
- >>Stealth?
- >
- >S3 based cards like the stealth are slower than ET4000 cards in standard
- >VGA modes like games use. The only way an S3 card will be faster is if
- >you use an application which has drivers which specifically use the S3's
- >accelerated modes (like Windows).
- >
- >If you want fast bitmapped graphics for games get an ET4000 card. Local
- >bus if your montherboard can use it.
- >
- >--
- >Steve Strazdus sstrazdu@sedona.intel.com
-
- I posted a request for this type of information before with no response.
-
- 1) Is there any reason that the S3 cards are slower?
- 2) How much slower are they?
- 3) I thought a Diamond Stealth card would be faster because it uses VRAM?
- 4) Is ET4000 a card or a Chip Set?
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- Thank for any responses!!!!
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