| From: | David Stroud |
| Date: | 5 Oct 99 at 09:46:24 |
| Subject: | Re: Graphic cards article |
From: "David Stroud" <david@amigactive.com>
> Hello, AA
> Thanks for the magazine and long life.
Hey! We weren't giving out lives with the magazine were we? I thought we
just mounted a CD on the mag. Hmmm. Obviously something was amiss with your
copy. We're sorry for any inconvenience :-)
> Just read the article on graphics cards. I was dissapointed. I was hoping
> for information that would be aimed at someone, like myself with no
> knowledge of how to go about using one on my A1200. The article just seemed
> to repeat once more the benefits of a graphics card then discussed problems
> associated with various cards. Too often Amiga articles move from the
> basics to the advanced topics skipping the bits that I need to know,
> leaving me frustrated. I need more basic help. I want to know the options
> for putting a graphics card into my machine, for instance I need to know
> how it can be done without towering my machine, (I use a converted PC PSU)
> . I need to know how it will work with my Apollo 040/40 accy card. I need
> to know if a PPC card is essential. I need to know if my Microvitec
> Multisync monitor will cope with all screen rates that would be thrown at
> it. I wouldn't mind a 'Which' report of the various choices open to me.
If we were to mention how each accelerator card would affect each graphics
card, it would take a while (and a lot more pages!) The article was intended
to be more of an overview, and dealt with why you should get a graphics
card, the advantages they have over the dated Amiga custom chips and the
options open to you (Zorro cards, C/BVisions, the Ateobus system...). It
also tells you what benefits from the addition of a graphics card (just
about everything!), what suffers (AGA modes) and how to deal with it
(Flicker fixers, scan doublers and software in the form of mode promotion
software).
As I said, it was intended to be an overview rather than an "in depth" or
"the basics of" feature.
But your concerns have been noted :-)
Regards,
David.
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