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From: wizard@sosaria.imp.com (Chris Brand)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Windows 3.0, SVGA Cards, and Amiga
Message-ID: <3272.AA3272@sosaria>
Date: 9 Jul 90 18:09:23 GMT
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Organization: Sosaria Realm Berne, Switzerland
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In article <7937.2691387B@voice> Johannes.Mistelbauer@p0.f3.n313.z2.FIDONET.ORG (Johannes Mistelbauer) says:
> Ease-of-use yes, but its multitasking is _really_ weak. I just installed it on > my BBS machine and played a little with it, but lost characters from
> the serial port when moving windows. With Windows 3.0 you will need a 25 MHz
> 386 to get the multitasking performance of an amiga.

...the prices of which are coming down more and more. I've seen an ad for a
486 (yes), 25 Mhz, with 1025x768 and so on for about 5300.- US$. 

> It would be nice, if you could send me the connection diagram of your
> board. A friend and I just started such a project and my part is to develop the>  hardware. But I am not very familiar with Zorro II and such things and
> I don't want an dead amiga :-). 
> 
> We thought of a new driver, similar to CON and RAW so that you can open
> a new window VGA:0/0/640/480, but it would be text-only. I am not sure
> if you could patch Intuition to run on such a card.

Yes! Yes! Yes! Do it! If I were a good programmer I'd offer you my help (but
I'm not, sigh :-)


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