rogerson@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM (Dale Rogerson) (07/20/89)
To those who might be interested: I am in the market for a super VGA adapter for running Windows. I was looking at the VGA Wonder by ATI, but it does not have the Windows/386 drivers. I called them yesterday to see if they planned to support Windows/386 and they said that they would be shipping out drivers for it in about 2 weeks. He said that the drivers would support 1024x768 and 800x600x16. He did not think that they would support the 800x600x256 mode. We shall see. -----Dale Rogerson-----
usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) (07/25/89)
In article <2610@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM> rogerson@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM (Dale Rogerson) writes: >To those who might be interested: > >I am in the market for a super VGA adapter for running Windows. I was >looking at the VGA Wonder by ATI, but it does not have the Windows/386 >drivers. I called them yesterday to see if they planned to support >Windows/386 and they said that they would be shipping out drivers for >it in about 2 weeks. He said that the drivers would support 1024x768 and >800x600x16. He did not think that they would support the 800x600x256 >mode. We shall see. > >-----Dale > Rogerson----- Very interesting. I am in the market, too, for a Super VGA card and had written off the VGA Wonder because of its lack of Windows/386 support. This was based on the review of Super VGA boards in the July issue of PC Magazine. For those who don't have this issue, the ATI VGA Wonder was the "Editor's Choice" despite its lack of a Windows/386 driver. Other boards that did support Windows/286 *and* Windows/386 at 800x600 or greater include: Western Digital Paradise VGA Professional Intelligent Data Systems Intelligent VGA 650 (evidently the same board as the Paradise VGA PLus 16) SOTA VGA/16 Allstar Peacock Plus EVGA STB VGA EM-16 Genoa SuperVGA 5400 Tatung VGA Video Seven V-RAM VGA I'm wondering whether 1024x768 resolution is worth getting; it is reasonable to view on a monitor that costs $1000 or less? Mark Riordan riordanmr@clvax1.cl.msu.edu