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From: taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett)
Subject: Re: (Video) Hardware Idiots ?
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Date: Sun, 9 Jun 1991 01:40:46 GMT
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In article <1991Jun8.202434.22621@newserve.cc.binghamton.edu>, consp03@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (Kriston J. Rehberg) writes:
>In article <1991Jun8.085839.3556@news.iastate.edu>,
>taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) writes:
>|>   Unfortunately, you will have to wait a while (probably a very LONG while)
>|>for that.  This is NOT supported in AmigaDOS 2.0, and will not be supported
>|>on the Amiga for several years.  
>|>
>|>   Right now, you don't have any choices at all as to what kind of display
>|>you use for your Workbench.  You either put up with the idiosyncracies of
>|>the Amiga's inadequate chipset, or get another system.  It's as simple as
>|>that.
>|>
>
>Marc, have you used 2.0?  There is a "Monitors" drawer and an
>"Addmonitors" program to do just that.  In addition, even the A2410 and
>the moniterm monitors have device drivers for 2.0, and for 1.3.  Have
>you used Productivity?
>
>Are you always this speculative, or do you research before you reply??

   I am not speculating.  I have used 2.0, and I know for a solid fact
that it does not have device-independent graphics.  If getting these 
video cards to work with Workbench and Intuition was as simple as writing
a 2.0 display-driver, then why hasn't anyone written any 2.0 display
drivers for the HAM-E, Colorburst, DCTV, or Video Toaster?  The reason
is that the concept of the monitors drawer with display drivers will
eventually be expanded to full device-independent graphics, but it is
not capable of DIG right now.

>
>
>click!...[author kill]
>
>|> / Marc Barrett  -MB- | BITNET:   XGR39@ISUVAX.BITNET        /   
>
>Kris
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