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From: bell@pyro.ei.dupont.com (Mike Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Slowness of 8*24GC card
Message-ID: <1990Dec6.134549.16691@pyro.ei.dupont.com>
Date: 6 Dec 90 13:45:49 GMT
References: <3535@ssc-bee.ssc-vax.UUCP> <642800009@ENS.Prime.COM> <11434@goofy.Apple.COM>
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In article <11434@goofy.Apple.COM> sands@apple.com (Michael Sands) writes:
>There are some (?) applications that do not adhere to the Macintosh 
>programming guidelines.  They achieve acceleration by doing things behind 
>QuickDraw's back.  Many of these same applications break or actually go 
>slower when running with the GC card.
>
>Apple tested many applications with the GC card.  The companies with 
>applications that did not work were informed and many promised to release 
>revised working versions.  The list of incompatible applications is 
>available from the dealers.
>
>Michael Sands
>system extension group
>(408) 974-6108
>novice driver, just my thoughts



   Unfortunately, MacX (the one from Apple) is one of those programs that
has problems with the 24GC card.  When you try to display a program that 
does color animation (a color ico, for example), all that get is a black,
flickering window.  I was particularly bummed by this, because I was really
hoping that the GC card would make MacX fly.......







				Mike




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