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From: ejb@think.com (Erik Bailey)
Subject: Re: RasterOps Cards?
Message-ID: <1991Jun4.144450.2327@Think.COM>
Keywords: Video
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Date: Tue, 4 Jun 91 14:44:50 GMT
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In article <135786@unix.cis.pitt.edu> stump@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Robert E Mitchell) writes:
>
>	I've finally decided to end my "7.0" woes and purchase a video card
>for my IIsi. [...]

>[...] and for god's sake keep your si out of 256 color mode
>with system 7 w/o a video card :^)

Well, I run *MY* IIsi in 256-color mode under system 7, and I'm pretty
happy! :-) Actually, there's really no reason NOT to, as long as you do two
things:

	1) turn off the "pretty" windows (with the Color cdev), so they
	   only display with B&W borders
	2) set the RAM Cache to 768k to speed up the built-in video

I find that (under sys 6.0.7, anyway) this makes 256-color mode as fast
as 16-color mode used to be, and 16-color mode as fast as B&W mode.  Under
Sys 7, it's a little slower, but not too bad.

Then again, if I could afford one, I'd probably do exactly what Robert is
doing and get a video card.  I just hate the idea of using up my one and
only slot... :-(  Too bad no one makes a 24-bit card with a cache or an
accellerator!

--Erik

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