🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi all,
I'm looking for information on Local Bus video. We had been looking into
buying a Gateway machine with a local bus ATI Graphics Ultra, but Gateway's
speed in shipping and tech support record has been a little weak for my
taste. So, then we were going to check out Dell. I called Dell today and
their tech support told me that their Local Bus Video was *not* VESA-
compatible, nor did it have slots - it was just an S3 chipset on the
motherboard with their own interpretation.

I'm looking for a local bus sytem that is VESA-compatible and that will
allow me to put in a fast local bus video board, like the ATI Graphics
Ultra implementation of Gateway's, and a local bus IDE controller. Is
there anyone out there doing multimedia with local bus, or is it two
early in the life cycle? I don't want to wind up with a motherboard that
won't work with any later video boards. Does anyone know if Gateway's
system is VESA-compatible and a solid, robust implementation likely to
be around for awhile?

Would I be better off buying a straight machine without local bus video
and putting in an ATI Graphics Ultra? The goal is 320x200 15 frames per
second video off of hard disk or, eventually, CD/ROM. Is this even realistic?
We can get a 486/66 ISA machine to start with, but I would like feedback
on doing digital video in this stage of the technology. If it is going to
take us several more iterations before it works, I may go with an analog
video solution for now.
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