[comp.windows.ms] Ultra VGA, is it for real?

rubin@visual1.jhuapl.edu (Don Rubin) (03/19/91)

At a trade show I got some literature from a company that
has a VGA card that has 1536x1280 APPARANT resolution on
a 640x480 VGA monitor. It uses a C&T 82C452 chipset. Is 
this for real, how do they do it, anyone have this card,
how is the Windows 3.0 driver? Thanks...

nan@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Nan Zou) (03/19/91)

rubin@visual1.jhuapl.edu (Don Rubin) writes:

>At a trade show I got some literature from a company that
>has a VGA card that has 1536x1280 APPARANT resolution on
>a 640x480 VGA monitor. It uses a C&T 82C452 chipset. Is 
>this for real, how do they do it, anyone have this card,
>how is the Windows 3.0 driver? Thanks...

Sounds like a card with Edsun CEG chips, these chips replace the RAMDAC
on a standard VGA card and has anti-aliasing hardware builtin, hence
the increase in apparant resolution. I heard there is a little prefomance
degradation, how much slower?

Orchid is supposed to have such a replacement chip out soon. I haven't
called them so I don't know if it's out already. Has any Orchid owner gotten
this chip yet?

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