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- From: danb@shell.portal.com (Dan E Babcock)
- Subject: Re: Stupid question of the week: Why not a VGA card in your A2
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- References: <Boinger.07si@myamy.hacktic.nl> <jbickers.0lqj@templar.actrix.gen.nz> <boinger.084p@myamy.hacktic.nl>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 05:47:32 GMT
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- In article <boinger.084p@myamy.hacktic.nl> boinger@myamy.hacktic.nl (Paul Kolenbrander) writes:
- >In article <jbickers.0lqj@templar.actrix.gen.nz> jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes:
- >> Quoted from <Boinger.07si@myamy.hacktic.nl> by Boinger@myamy.hacktic.nl (Paul Kolenbrander):
- >> > In article <1992Dec13.030321.19353@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA> tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran) writes:
- >>
- >> > > Sorry, the Golden Gate won't allow you to do this. Besides, without RTG,
- >> > > how would you display Workbench?
- >> >
- >> > Are you sure we are talking about the same GoldenGate II? I am
- >> > pretty sure the docs mention that it is possible. And displaying
- >>
- >> I recall the same thing. The only problem is what does one code as
- >> a "device driver", when the current OS doesn't have RTG.
- >
- >Maybe the same type those German guys Dave H. was referring to are
- >using? It should be possible. The German Retina and Domino cards do
- >things along similar lines... I'm no device writer tho. Anybody here
- >more qualified wanting to anwer this? Or maybe write a driver? ;-)
-
- As I understand it the Domino-like cards basically replace the entire graphics.
- library. (A lot of system routines anyway...). This has some disadvantages, like
- 1. It's hard to write/debug (a lot of messy code). and 2. You have to play a
- game of catch-up with Commodore as new routines are added to graphics.lib.
- In short, it's not a routine matter to crank out a "driver" of this kind...it
- requires some rather extraordinary hacking. RTG, RTG, RTG...:-)
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- Dan
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