Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!uflorida!gatech!hubcap!ncrcae!opusc!mazurka!kenny From: kenny@mazurka.UUCP (Kenneth Yarnall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: (Video) Hardware Idiots ? Message-ID: Date: 9 Jun 91 00:16:42 GMT References: <1991Jun3.202114.4029@newserve.cc.binghamton.edu> <1991Jun3.225024.13052@marlin.jcu.edu.au> <1991Jun4.210724.1246@newserve.cc.binghamton.edu>,<1991Jun7.091455.10355@rulway.LeidenUniv.nl> <1991Jun8.085839.3556@news.iastate.edu> Organization: Math Department, USC Lines: 48 In article <1991Jun8.085839.3556@news.iastate.edu> taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) writes: >In article <1991Jun7.091455.10355@rulway.LeidenUniv.nl>, breemen@rulcvx.LeidenUniv.nl (E. van Breemen) writes: >>In article <1991Jun4.210724.1246@newserve.cc.binghamton.edu> consp03@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (Kriston J. Rehberg) writes: >>>In article <1991Jun3.225024.13052@marlin.jcu.edu.au>, >>>cpmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Matthew W Crowd) writes: >>> >>>Look in Amigaworld for any of the 24-bit cards, VGA boards >>>("flicker-fixers"), and other stuff. I see plenty. >>> >> >>How compatible are those boards? Can I transfer all my display to such >>cards or am I limited to one program (like Caligari?) For example I >>would like to run the WB on such a card. I don't think that will be >>possible under 1.3. But under 2.0??? > > 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. Where do you get your information? Several years? How did you reach this conclusion? My dealer just informed me that the 2410 (ULowell board) just hit the inventory of the guy at Commodore that he buys from. No price yet, but this does mean that the board is soon to be purchase-able. It *could* (pure speculation, of course...) mean that some sort of software support under AmigaOS is completed. That may not be the case at all, certainly, since the board is supported by Release 4 on the Amiga (I recently saw a 3000UX plus 2410 demo'd by C= reps -- Very nice display). My only point is that you have no foundation for a statement like "[it] will not be supported 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. Inadequate? For what? Depends on what you do, I suppose, doesn't it? > / Marc Barrett -MB- | BITNET: XGR39@ISUVAX.BITNET / -- Ken Yarnall /// kenny%mazurka@opusc.csd.scarolina.EDU Math Department, USC \\\/// yarnall@usceast.cs.scarolina.EDU Columbia, S.C. 29208 \\\/ (803)777-5218 "I'm not good in groups. It's hard to work in a group when you're omnipotent." - Q