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- From: bm@shadow.cc.columbia.edu (Blair MacIntyre)
- Newsgroups: sci.virtual-worlds
- Subject: Re: TECH: 2 video cards?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.040207.6524@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 16:49:39 GMT
- Article-I.D.: u.1992Nov22.040207.6524
- References: <1992Nov18.050102.23495@u.washington.edu> <1992Nov19.072049.2479@u.w
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- >>>>> On 19 Nov 92 16:31:36 GMT, davidr@davidr.mentorg.com (FPD - D1434) said:
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- FPD> |> TJR122@PSUVM.PSU.EDU writes:
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- FPD> |> >
- FPD> |> >Has anyone out there ever played with building a dual display for
- FPD> |> >under $275? I've seen CGA cards that have an RF output.
- FPD> |> >So you could use a Casio LCD TV.
- FPD> |> >But how could I get the computer to recognize 2 such video cards?
-
- FPD> This may not be useful, but what the hey...
-
- FPD> Borland C++ 3.1 allows you to add a monochrome card and monitor and
- FPD> when you invoke the debugger on some application, the application
- FPD> comes up normally on the color monitor and the debugger on the
- FPD> monochrome.
-
- FPD> I'm told this works because the color and monochrome cards use
- FPD> different memory areas. (I'm new to PCs so I can't get more
- FPD> technical than this.)
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- The key here is that you are hooking up a _monochrome_ card, not a CGA
- card. A monochrome card on the PC is one of those old things that lets
- you display 80x24(25?) text characters ... remember those? No graphics,
- no colour. Had flash and underline attributes, some even had the APL
- character set (oooh, ahhh!)
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