ATI Ega Wonder info request

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From: Jim Paradis
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1987 17:46

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As I type this I am looking at an ad in BYTE magazine for an
animal called the EGA Wonder card from ATI.  It advertises
"Any Software, Any Monitor, Any Time", and the ad shows software
for EGA, CGA, Hercules, and 132 columns running on an EGA
monitor, a TTL monitor, and a CGA monitor.  Anyhow, this
intrigued me because I currently have a CGA setup on my PC, and
this LOOKS like a way to upgrade to EGA capabilities on the
cheap.  I talked to a friend of mine who's a dealer... he never
heard of the card before and laughed at the very IDEA of doing
EGA-type things on a CGA monitor... 

Anyway, has anyone out there in net-land had any experience with
the EGA Wonder card?  Is it all it's cracked up to be?

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From: paradis@encore.UUCP (Jim Paradis)
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Subject: ATI Ega Wonder info request
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Date: Mon, 5-Jan-87 12:46:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan  5 12:46:00 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 6-Jan-87 00:59:37 EST
Organization: Encore Computer Corp., Marlboro, MA
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Keywords: ATI EGA too good to be true