Re: Graphics Library for the SpeedStar 24X?

Article View: rec.games.programmer

Article #1871

Back to rec.games.programmer Previous Next

#1871

From: Kendall Bennett
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:34

22 lines
1655 bytes

nbb3647@ultb.isc.rit.edu (N.B. Bast) writes:

>RE: person who said SpeedStar 24X used S3 chip...  (I screwed up the
>post, and it didn't quote in right...)

>	The SpeedStar24X uses a Westen Digital chip, not S3.  the 24X is
>minutely faster than a Tseng 4000 card in DOS, and has gotten better
>winmark ratings than S3 based cards in the same machine...  (this is
>highly based upon Drivers though...)  the 24X is also much cheaper than
>most S3 cards.  i.e. why buy S3?

Could someone tell me what WD chip it uses? WD90c30? WD90c31? Some other
chip (since I believe it has co-processed stuff on it right?).

Thanks,

+------------------------------------------+-------------------------------+
| Kendall Bennett                          | Internet:                     |
| RMIT Advanced Computer Graphics Centre   | kjb@citri.edu.au              |
| CITRI Building, 723 Swanston Street      | rcskb@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au    |
| Carlton Victoria 3053 AUSTRALIA.         |                               | 
+------------------------------------------+-------------------------------+

Technical Details

Message-ID: <1k20v5INNt21@escargot.xx.rmit.OZ.AU>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!monu6!escargot!minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU!rcskb

References: <1993Jan19.014737.10690@smos.com> <C18CM7.LLs@wimsey.bc.ca> <1993Jan22.190529.24896@ultb.isc.rit.edu>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!monu6!escargot!minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU!rcskb
From: rcskb@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU (Kendall Bennett)
Newsgroups: rec.games.programmer,comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Graphics Library for the SpeedStar 24X?
Date: 26 Jan 1993 00:34:45 GMT
Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
Lines: 22
Message-ID: <1k20v5INNt21@escargot.xx.rmit.OZ.AU>
References: <1993Jan19.014737.10690@smos.com> <C18CM7.LLs@wimsey.bc.ca> <1993Jan22.190529.24896@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au

Reply to Parent Message