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The video blaster has:
(from brochure)
Video Acquisition: Switchable between 3 NTSC/PAL sources.  Resolution 640x480.
Windowing/Overlaying: 1 pixel Positioning.  Overlay VGA using color key.
Masks: Color keying, Luminance, and chrominance masking.
Inputs: Female RCA jacks for 3 video signals, D-15 connector for VGA in,
        Ribbon connector for VGA feature connector, mono mic input,
        Female RCA jacks for audio line inputs.
Outputs: Stereo jack speaker output, D-15 for SVGA output.

Image Manipulation: Zooming, Scaling, Cropping.
                    Adjust Hue, Sat, Bright, Contrast, RGB.
                    X-Y Panning.
Audio: Mixed 0.5W Amp'd @ 4ohm
       Mixing of Stereo Line-in, CD-Audio, Stereo FM and Mic.
       Software control of fade, left/right vol, and mic mixing.
Image Acquisition: PCX, TIFF, BMP, MMP, GIF, TGA, JPEG
       640x480 up to 2million true colors.
I/O Port Memory accessing: Software selectable IRQs and I/O ports.
       Software mapping of frame buffer from 8M to 16M
Video display memory: 3/4 MB buffer, Dual port VRAM.
System requirements:
PC AT or higher.
VGA card with compatible feature connector (call 1-800-998-LABS to verify
compatibility).
16bit slot.
DOS 3.1 or greater
VGA or multisync runing 50-70Hz with horz scan of 31.5Khz.
RAM must be less than 16MB.

I was quite interested in one of these cards till I noticed the last caveat.
On my 486 the choices are 8M -> 16M -> >16M thus having a video blaster will
limit me to 8M.  I would like to be able to run Unix out of
another partition and X in 8M is grim.  The video blaster card locates its
memory somewhere between 8M and 16M and interferes with any memory that
is located in the same area thus restricting the system to <16M.

David Albrecht