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- From: tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: AGA and a 3000 ? possibility
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.080948.22763@enea.se>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 08:09:48 GMT
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- Organization: Enea Data AB
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- boing@mcl.ucsb.edu (Geff Hanoian) writes:
- :
- : I've been told "NO!" a few times but I was thinking about it again
- : and I thought of something. Now, I'm not the Engineering type,
- : just a software guys. What if you were to take an 040 and put the
- : AGA chip set on a card and plug it into the accelerator slot on the
- : 3000??? Is this possible or would a faster video port also be
- : neccesary that might be able to be rigged through the video slot?
- :
- : Am I way off base and a complete idiot or is this way too expensive
- : or should I enrole in some electrical and computer engineering classes.
-
- Fortunately it's the "way too expensive" that's the right choice, the
- other doesn't apply. You would have to stick most of an A4000 on that
- card. What would be more practical is to make a graphics card that's
- much better than AGA (there are several expensive out there) but that is
- also compatible with AGA. You would have to pay a lot for it, but it
- would also give you a lot.
-
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