paradis@encore.UUCP (Jim Paradis) (01/05/87)
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? +----------------+ Jim Paradis | Disclaimer: All opinions are +--+-------------+ | Encore Computer Corp. | completely my own. Encore | | E N C O R E | | 257 Cedar Hill St. | probably doesn't even have | +-------------+--+ Marlboro MA 01752 | opinions on most of these +----------------+ (617) 460-0500 | topics!
tommie@psivax.UUCP (Tom Levin) (01/10/87)
In article <1006@encore.UUCP> paradis@encore.UUCP (Jim Paradis) writes: >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. (...) I have read articles in PC Week about the EGA Wonder. It looks like a great video card (although I havn't seen an actual demo of one yet). The EGA Wonder accomplishes EGA mode on CGA monitors by using a technique called interlace. This is where every other video line is drawn during each refresh cycle. The downfall to this is that you can occasionally see screen flicker (especially when there is lots of "white" on the screen). As for price, I have seen it advertised for $299.00 in PC Week. If anyone purchases one of these video cards, please post a review of it tested on various monitors. -- ________________________________________________________________________________ Tom Levin {ihnp4|sdcrdcf|ttidca|scgvaxd|nrcvax| "Everyone could stand 100 jplpro|hoptoad|csun|quad1|bellcore| x-rays a year...and they logico|rdlvax} !psivax!tommie should have them too!"