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From: keithe@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: More on my earlier "I think I've found my VGA card!!!"
Keywords: VGA V-RAM
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Date: 8 May 89 23:15:55 GMT
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Reply-To: keithe@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
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Earlier I wrote:
>I think I've finally settled on a VGA card.  It is a Tatung VGA.  Actually,
>Tatung puts their name on two VGA cards.  The one I like is a Video7 FastWrite
>clone.  The other is called the Tatung VGA-16 and is a Paradise clone.
>
...

>Anyway, the Tatung is available for about $200, not much more than a high-end
>EGA card.  The only downside is that it is limited to 256k RAM (cf. the 512k
>capacity if the Video7 FastWrite.)  But 256k allows 640 x 480 x 256 colors and
>800 x 600 x 16 colors, which is sufficient for our needs.
>

Some additional info:  It's 640 x 400 x 256 colors, not the 480 I typ(o)ed
above. 

I had to work to get it to play with my Adaptec RLL card:  its onboard BIOS
is addresses at the same place as is the Adaptec; the Adaptec can be rejumpered
to relocate its BIOS.  Then it works OK.

Except you have to get creative with 386^MAX: assign region c600-cc00 as RAM or
the Tatung gets confused (i.e., blithered display) in 43-line text mode.  That
took some work to figure out.

The "Under $200" price:  Eltech Research, Milpitas CA.  (But remember I'm
getting pricing on nearly 10 systems.)

kEITHe