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- From: dvsg0223@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (David Salamon)
- Subject: Re: Golden Gate II
- References: <1992Dec22.053714.18609@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 06:39:36 GMT
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- tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran) writes:
-
- >In article <BzMpxo.JHs@news.cso.uiuc.edu> dvsg0223@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
- >(David Salamon) writes:
-
- >>>By relative, I was simply wondering how a VGA card would perform under this
- >>>configuration as compared to use on its native ISA bus (ie, would an
- >>>accelerated card such as a Speedstar or Ultra Pro be reasonably fast
- >>>given RTG?).
-
- >>If the CPU is fast enough, it should be able to write
- >>out video data at a reasonable rate.
-
- >Given the price/performance ratio, this should make the Golden Gate II
- >quite marketable. Have any of the current users indicated whether they have
- >written any code to use a VGA card in a frame buffer capacity?
-
- Several people say they are working on it. One possibility being tossed around
- is to write an Imagemaster driver, or something for ADPro.
-
- >Also, is it possible to use the GGII/VGA combination of hardware on the Amiga
- >side and still have access to the VGA card with a Bridgeboard installed
- >(not at the same time of course)?
-
- No, you have to make the choice of whether to use your PC/ISA slots as true
- IBM slots with the bridgeboard, or Amiga devices with the GoldenGateII. You
- cannot have both a traditional Bridgeboard and the GoldenGateII in your
- machine at the same time, since they both want control of the PC bus.
- On the other hand, you might be able to use something like ATonce with
- the GoldenGateII, since Atonce doesn't use the bus.
-
- David
-
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- David Salamon Physics Graduate Student (Slave)
- d-salamon@uiuc.edu University of Illinois
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