Re: 24 bit accelerator cards

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From: Morgan Stair
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:25

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>|> I would go for the Diamond Speedstar 24X which is faster and cheaper
>|> than the 1280 . You can get it for about $160. You have to consider also
>|> the speed of DOS operations. The 1280 was 50% slower than my cheapie
>|> SVGA with DOS. The 24X was 2x the speed of 1280.

>I too was thinking of getting the 24X.  However, I have seen quite a bit of
>bad publicity about their Windows 3.1 drivers.  Does anyone know
>if the drivers are bad first hand?  Any hope of a fix?

From what I understand the Windows problems (which I believe were
limitted to 800x600x256) were fixed in the latest driver released.
Try an msdos mirror sight for the new drivers.  I'm sure I saw them at
wuarchive, though they were still in the /pub/MSDOS_UPLOADS/windows
directory.

Morgan
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