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From: jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: VGA Card Recommendation for Zenith Flat Screen
Message-ID: <25fc2ea5.bba@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 12 Mar 90 23:20:05 GMT
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Reply-To: jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck)
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In article <2435@calvin.cs.mcgill.ca> rossp@calvin.cs.mcgill.ca (Ross PORTER) writes:
>The Zenith FTM supports up to 640x480 -- no more, so the extended res
>feature of the Paradise 1024 or V7 1024i would go wasted.  I would
>suggest a less expensive "standard VGA" card e.g. Hercules or Paradise's
>basic VGA boards.  Note that you probably can't get a 16-bit basic VGA
>board (outside of Compaq's pricy card).

There is a "Basic VGA" version of the ATI VGA Wonder card.  I have never seen
it advertized, but when I went to buy a no-name VGA card from a clone
dealer in So. Calif., the card that I got was made by ATI, it had the same
pc board as my VGA Wonder, minus some chips, and a paper sticker that said
"Basic VGA" on the box.  I'm not sure now, perhaps that board would not
function in 16-bit mode, but it does have the AT bus fingers on it.
In any case, it isn't supposed to work beyond the regular VGA modes, and 
so I never bothered to try it in any of the extended modes.

I'm not sure what the price is.  I think I paid $165 last summer for it,
though it might have been less.  Most likely it is the sort of thing that
dealers keep in the back room to put into clones whenever the customer
doesn't know the difference between basic vga and super vga, and it probably
is pretty cheap wholesale.

-- 
John Dudeck                           "You want to read the code closely..." 
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