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From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows @ 1024 x 768 / equipment?
Message-ID: <53262271@bfmny0.BFM.COM>
Date: 15 Feb 91 08:35:47 GMT
References: <10730011@hpspkla.spk.hp.com>
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
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In article <10730011@hpspkla.spk.hp.com> bollard@hpspkla.spk.hp.com (Lee M. Bollard) writes:
>I'm considering buying a Sony-1304 monitor and either a Diamond
>SpeedSTAR 1meg video card or an Orchid Prodesigner II.
>
>My primary concern is running Windows non-interlaced at a high
>resolution.
>
>I've heard that either of these hardware combos will run Win at
>1024x768 non-interlaced, but could someone fill me in on how many
>colors I can get?  I assume 16 will work, but don't know about 256(?).

The Boca SuperVGA Plus is currently making the rounds at about $150.  It
has a meg of RAM and the Tseng ET4000 chipset (like the Orchid PDII).
It comes with drivers for Windows, WordPerfect and so forth.  I get
wonderful looking 1024x768x256 non interlaced out of it, on an NEC 4D
16" monitor (current street price about $950).  **HOWEVER** the Windows
driver is clearly interlaced.  I am still looking for a way around this
as I prefer non-interlaced.

By the way the new generic ET4000 drivers work fine and are newer than
what Boca distributes; they appear to fix a couple of blitting bugs in
the August Windows driver.  Still interlaced though.