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From: ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen)
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Subject: Re: hooking up vga cards to ST's
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cstein@jarthur.claremont.edu (Clifford Stein) writes:

- Does anyone know how to hook up a VGA card (or super VGA card) to a 
- Mega ST.
-
- I've been thinking about it and it would be pretty neat to do.  I 
- wouldn't expect TOS to use it; I was thinking it would be an extra
- monitor so one could be using the standard Atari monitor while looking
- at a picture displayed on the other monitor with the VGA card.  It
- would be for display purposes only, not for general use (which would
- probably involve some major hacking of TOS).
-
- Can anyone help?  Has anyone done it?
 
Don't know if this will help you or not, but I'll mention it anyway.  
There's a board called an ISAC board which gives 1024x768x16colors 
out of 4096.  It costs around $1000 and requires a multisync monitor. 
I've never seen one.  Then, there's also the Parsec board which does 
roughly the same.  I think both are GEM- and TOS-compatible with some 
patches.  I think Lexicor is handling the Parsec board now and a new 
place called Dover Research is handling the ISAC.  Unfortunately, I 
don't have numbers for either.  If you want, leave me mail and I'll 
look around for some addresses.

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