Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc:15058 comp.graphics:2391
Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!geoff@moss.ATT.COM
From: geoff@moss.ATT.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Graphics cards for PC's
Keywords: EGA VGA Paradise
Message-ID: <25568@clyde.ATT.COM>
Date: 29 Apr 88 13:57:09 GMT
References: <905@agora.UUCP>
Sender: nuucp@clyde.ATT.COM
Reply-To: geoff@moss.UUCP (Geoff Sherwood)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Whippany NJ
Lines: 24

In article <905@agora.UUCP> rickc@agora.UUCP (Rick Coates) writes:
>
>
>Fellow Usenet PC users:
>
>What I am looking for is 640x480x256 (I know that at least one firm is making 
>chips that do this - EE Times reported that Trident is making them).
>Other people will be looking for other things - be careful about maximum
>resolution.  The high end of 'multi-sync' monitors is not uniform, and 
>you might get edged out if you have the wrong monitor.

Allstar Microsystems Corp makes a board which they claim has 800x600x256.
I spoke with them yesterday and they said that while they were out of stock
at the moment, they expected to be shipping them when they got back from
Comdex (2 weeks).  They want $345 for the card.  (See May 88 Computer Shopper
page 267).

I also asked what they thought of the Thomson Ultrascan (since it is so
damned cheap -- $385 from Lyco).  The guy said he had seen one and thought
it looked pretty good, although the black wasn't as good as some he had
seen.  Any comments?

	geoff sherwood
	ihnp4!moss!geoff