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- From: jim@cs.curtin.edu.au (Jim McGrady)
- Subject: Re: FAQ? Will be there AGA chips in A3000?
- Message-ID: <jim.722514326@marsh>
- Sender: news@cujo.curtin.edu.au (News Manager)
- Organization: Curtin University of Technology
- References: <1689E79F7.AKURCZYN@itesmvf1.rzs.itesm.mx> <1992Nov17.123855.1@cc.newcastle.edu.au>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 10:25:26 GMT
- Lines: 28
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- birjt@cc.newcastle.edu.au writes:
-
- >In article <1689E79F7.AKURCZYN@itesmvf1.rzs.itesm.mx>, AKURCZYN@itesmvf1.rzs.itesm.mx (Alejandro J. Kurczyn S.) writes:
- >> I have heard that the new AGA chips are not compatible with the A3000, also
- >> that by means of a zorroIII card they might be installed on such computer,
- >> my question is this: Is it possible to have the new graphic modes of the
- >> AGA chips, and the OS v3.0 on the A3000?
- >>
- >From what I have gathered from here, the AGA chips will not go into an A3000
- >and currently cannot go into a slot (tight timing etc.). Someone recently said
- >that there will be an OS3.0 upgrade for non-AGA machine so they will get some
- >extra speed from the rewritten graphics.lib, but no extra colours.
-
- Its understandable that all of the AGA chipset functionality would be
- difficult to implement on a Zorro 3 card. But how about using the chipset
- just for graphics, ie; have on board psuedo chip ram that is independent
- from real chip ram on the motherboard.
-
- This way, an AGA card would not really be an integrated part of the hardware
- ,as in A4000, but it would be more like an add on graphics card ala Domino.
-
- Feasible ???
-
-
- regards
-
- Jim
-
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