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MODIFYING VGA cards for PCs

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From: Geoff Thomas
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 08:26
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A few questions about modifying VGA cards:


1) How can I cram 2 VGA cards into a PC, and have them independently
addressable? Because of the way DOS handles it's video address space,
only one card can reside in the video address space, but what if, on a
3/486 the other card could be given a different address space that
doesn't clash with the first, and could be addressed via protected mode
on the 3/486.


2) Any ideas on how to give the VGA card a flat video memory, rather
than a paged one?

3) Lastly, is it possible to speed up writes to the video address space?
Currently its quite slow, and I want to speed it up.


Any thanks much appreciated.
Geoff Thomas.
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From: geoffrey@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz (Geoff Thomas)
Date: 11 Sep 92 20:26:16 +1200
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