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From: johnm@trsvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Graphics cards for PC's
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Date: 2 May 88 13:32:00 GMT
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Nf-From: trsvax.UUCP!johnm    May  2 08:32:00 1988


>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).

Take this bit of knowledge for what it's worth (not much :-) but Orchid also
makes a VGA card with the mode that you want (and even a 800 x 600 x 256 I
believe, but I only know about the first one for sure).  It is based on the
Tseng chip set (as, I've heard, are several of the other higher rez VGA boards).
It has bugs and it's slow, but it's also cheap, they are working on the roms to
get all the bugs fixed and the speed can go from bad to excellent if you copy
the Bios code into the ram using a speedup program (according to PC Week's
review).

A GREAT place to find out about this is in the CompuServe PICS forum, type
GO PICS and you'll find that they are always discussing this one issue (in fact
it gets a tad boring for those of us who don't own IBM clones).