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From: joe@cbmvax.commodore.com (Joe O'Hara - Product Assurance)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: vga
Message-ID: <19747@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 11 Mar 91 19:37:17 GMT
References: <7576@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
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In article <7576@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> rowebm@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Brian Rowe) writes:
>if you own a bridge board(AT) can you buy the SVGA card sold for IBM
>and get the S-VGA resolution?  I wanted to do this on the 1950 monitor.

  Yes, this is precisely what you need to do for S-VGA.

>If you own a 3000, which has super-hi-res (about 1240X400) would it be
>worth to do this anyway?  Would any software support it.  I like
>the S-VGA but I don't how usefull it would be.

  Not sure I understand the question here. The AmigaDos resolution modes
  are irrelevant to the BridgeBoard. The only display modes supported in
  the Amiga for PCWindow are CGA and MDA. Other modes require a PC display
  adapter.





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