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From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Graphics cards, 768x1024x256
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Date: 18 Feb 91 00:33:22 GMT
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In article <91371965@bfmny0.BFM.COM> tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes:
>Cheaper than that - street price on the Boca SVGA+ is $175 or so.
>
>I would definitely say if you have a fast 386 or 486, get one.  It's so
>cheap you can use it somewhere else if you decide to get a fancy
>coprocessor board later.
>
>Definitely use the "Generic ET4000" drivers floating around BBS's and
>CIS, rather than the Boca-supplied ones.  The Generics are newer, faster
>and fix a bug.
>
>Keep in mind that some WinApps have trouble with 256 colors.  Also that
>16 colors is still noticeably faster than 256, even on the ET4000.
>
>We're still looking for NON-interlaced 1024x768x16/256 Windows drivers
>for the ET, though.  Existing drivers are interlaced.
> 
>-- 

How are these cards related to the ORchid Prodesigner Plus? That one
is definately running in non-interlaced 768x1024/256 mode 
in Windows. No flicker at all. I was under the impression that 
interlaced or non-interlaced depended on a jumper on the card, not
on any software, though that is just an impression.

Doug McDonald