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Re: Video Blaster

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From: Kim Naru
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 19:26
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In article <1992Nov10.103347.22366@u.washington.edu> rkimmel@stein.u.washington.edu (Denise Brown) writes:
>
> Can someone give me info on the Video Blaster by creative labs,
> or any other video hook up card for a 486?  
>
>
>thanks!

I tried out the Video Blaster card at a local computer store. The ms-dos
machines was running windows and the input for the video blaster was 
comming form a cd player.  The canned demo was quite impressive; though
the salesman did tell me I could not get the resolution shown in the
demo(?) The resolution supported by the card was 480x240(?),

While the demo was running I captured an image and saved it to file. I
tried two formats: bitmapped and gif. When I displayed the captured
image, it was not very clear and there were black lines about 2mm wide
running vertically through the entire image.  In, short I was not
impressed enought by this board to purchase it. If any one out there
has had a different experience, please post it.

Anyway I'm also looking for a video board, does anyone know whats
available for the IBM pc/clones?


--thanks


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From: knaru@gumby.Altos.COM (Kim Naru)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Video Blaster
Message-ID: <6158@gumby.Altos.COM>
Date: 11 Nov 92 19:26:27 GMT
References: <1992Nov10.103347.22366@u.washington.edu>
Reply-To: knaru@altos.COM (Kim Naru)
Organization: Altos Computer Systems, San Jose, CA
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