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Re: A2320 (Amber) Card ?

#1985
From: Markus Kvisth
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 1996 09:37
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astroboy@netspace.net.au (Paul Dossett) writes:

>>I have an A4000 and a SVGA-monitor. As I sometimes want to
>>(have to) use PAL or NTSC (Yes, games, AMOS games,
>>GURUS ;-) and other OS-disrespectful programs) I thought
>>that I'd go for a ScanDoubler.
>>But watching the price of these thingies made me qurious
>>about the old A2320 board...

>>Now I wonder:
>>Exactly which modes/frequencies are promoted ?

>>Will it work well together with a GraphicsCard ?

>>Is colour reduction a problem (using games) ?

>You can't use the A2320 with AGA - it doesn't have the memory to hold an
>entire screen at once.  You need the Scan Doubler II, which costs £400.
>Ignore it.

>Paul Dossett

Wait a minute ! It surely must have enough memory for all kinds of PAL
screens (ie. 640x512...) that are what I want it to promote ? Does it 
also mess with screens that it can't handle (and destroys them) ?

/Markus
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From: d92mkv@Minsk.docs.uu.se (Markus Kvisth)
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Subject: Re: A2320 (Amber) Card ?
Date: 4 Mar 1996 09:37:32 GMT
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