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- From: dstampe@psych.toronto.edu (Dave Stampe)
- Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
- Subject: Re: TECH: 2 video cards?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.040145.6361@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 14:43:29 GMT
- Article-I.D.: u.1992Nov22.040145.6361
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- Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
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- davidr@davidr.mentorg.com (FPD - D1434) writes:
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- >This may not be useful, but what the hey...
- >
- >Borland C++ 3.1 allows you to add a monochrome card and monitor and when you
- >invoke the debugger on some application, the application comes up normally
- >on the color monitor and the debugger on the monochrome.
- >
- >I'm told this works because the color and monochrome cards use different
- >memory areas. (I'm new to PCs so I can't get more technical than this.)
- >
- Unfortunately, it's not that useful, because you can'r really draw stuff
- on the monochrome card, or if you use a VGA card the control registers
- addresses conflict. The goal is to draw graphics in exactly the same
- resolution and mode on each display, so you get stereoscopic depth.
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- | My life is Hardware, | Dave Stampe |
- | my destiny is Software, | dstampe@psych.toronto.edu |
- | my CPU is Wetware... | dstampe@sunee.uwaterloo.ca |
- | Am I a techno-psychologist, or just an engineer dabbling in psychology?|
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