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From: cconley@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (The Finn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Super VGA in an IBM XT.
Message-ID: <28319683.5f28@petunia.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 15 May 91 20:13:55 GMT
References: <1991May6.115535.5317@marlin.jcu.edu.au> <1991May13.205551.1369@mck-csc.mckinsey.com>
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|In comp.sys.ibm.pc buch@csc-sun.mckinsey.com (Michael Bucci) writes:
|>In article <1991May6.115535.5317@marlin.jcu.edu.au> cpmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Matthew W Crowd) writes:
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|>>Is it possible to put a Super VGA card into an XT and get all the
|>>video modes?
|>
|>It would be possible if you could find an 8-bit Super VGA card (good luck)!
|>
Haven't done much looking have you?
|>>I am specifically looking for 640x480x256 and 320x200x256.
|>
|>Even if you could, 640x480 graphics would be extremely SLOW on an XT.
Not so, I have a Paradise Plus VGA card that I am running now on my
XT and it runs quite nicely, it will try to outrun the cpu b/c it has
the ability to be either 8 or 16-bit.  The max res. is 800x600x256.
It will run all VGA modes under that quite easily.

|>
|>
|>buch@mckinsey.com  ====>  Michael Bucci
|>                          McKinsey & Company, Inc.
|>                          Cambridge, MA


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