dbullis@cognos.UUCP (Dave Bullis) (05/03/91)
The Boca SVGA board is available locally at a reasonable price. I've seen it mentioned here so thought I'd ask a few questions, mostly directed to people who have this board: 1) The board has only one 14.? MHz crystal on it. How does it generate the different clocks required? I assume it uses a VCO or something. Is this an acceptable way of doing things? 2) The manual says it supports 800x600 at 60Hz. This seems a little low to me. Is there any way to speed this up to 70Hz? It also supports 1024x768 at 60Hz but I couldn't afford a screen to do justice to anything faster anyways. 3) It has the tseng 4000 chip on it. Can I assume its compatible with s/w which uses the 4000 (in particular Roell's X386 under ISC)? 4) Is the board reasonably fast? Especially compared to other tseng 4000 boards (STB, speedSTAR, ...)? 5) Can anyone send me CLOCK.EXE from X386? -- Dave Bullis Cognos, Inc VOICE: (613) 738-1440 FAX: (613) 738-0002 3755 Riverside Dr. P.O. Box 9707 WORK: uunet!mitel!cunews!cognos!dbullis Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA K1G 3Z4 HOME: dave@sillub.ocunix.on.ca "I didn't know the terminals were haunted. The salesman didn't tell us."
dbullis@cognos.UUCP (Dave Bullis) (05/22/91)
The Boca SVGA board is available locally at a reasonable price.
I've seen it mentioned here so thought I'd ask a few questions,
mostly directed to people who have this board:
1) The board has only one 14.? MHz crystal on it. How does it generate
the different clocks required? I assume it uses a VCO or something.
Is this an acceptable way of doing things?
2) The manual says it supports 800x600 at 60Hz. This seems a little low
to me. Is there any way to speed this up to 70Hz? It also supports
1024x768 at 60Hz.
(I saw a post that mentioned the speedStar Plus does 1024x768 at 70Hz.
Is this true. Is it common for Tseng 4000 based boards?)
3) It has the tseng 4000 chip on it. Can I assume its compatible with
s/w which uses the 4000 (in particular Roell's X386 under ISC)?
4) Is the board reasonably fast? Especially compared to other tseng 4000
boards (STB, speedSTAR, ...)?
--
Dave Bullis Cognos, Inc VOICE: (613) 738-1440 FAX: (613) 738-0002
3755 Riverside Dr. P.O. Box 9707 WORK: uunet!mitel!cunews!cognos!dbullis
Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA K1G 3Z4 HOME: dave@sillub.ocunix.on.ca
"I didn't know the terminals were haunted. The salesman didn't tell us."dpavey@cccbbs.UUCP (doug pavey) (05/25/91)
dbullis@cognos.UUCP (Dave Bullis) writes: > The Boca SVGA board is available locally at a reasonable price. Please beware of this board by Boca. Several local merchants have stopped using this board as it is very non-standard. It is not supported by WIN3. and is very flaky in it's operation. I would seriously consider using a more well known board like paradise or ATI VGA Wonder if you need to run standard VGA applications. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Douglas A. Pavey Programmer/Analyst Syncor International +1 513/984-2839 9-5 EDT dpavey@cccbbs.UUCP This is not an official document of Syncor International. This work is the sole responsibility of the author and has not been
doug.pavey@sunbrk.FidoNet.Org (doug pavey) (05/25/91)
dbullis@cognos.UUCP (Dave Bullis) writes: > The Boca SVGA board is available locally at a reasonable price. Please beware of this board by Boca. Several local merchants have stopped using this board as it is very non-standard. It is not supported by WIN3. and is very flaky in it's operation. I would seriously consider using a more well known board like paradise or ATI VGA Wonder if you need to run standard VGA applications. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Douglas A. Pavey Programmer/Analyst Syncor International +1 513/984-2839 9-5 EDT dpavey@cccbbs.UUCP This is not an official document of Syncor International. This work is the sole responsibility of the author and has not been * Origin: Seaeast - Fidonet<->Usenet Gateway - sunbrk (1:343/15.0)
tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) (05/29/91)
In article <3w2g31w164w@cccbbs.UUCP> dpavey@cccbbs.UUCP (doug pavey) writes: >dbullis@cognos.UUCP (Dave Bullis) writes: > >> The Boca SVGA board is available locally at a reasonable price. > >Please beware of this board by Boca. Several local merchants have stopped >using this board as it is very non-standard. It is not supported by WIN3. >and is very flaky in it's operation. What total bogosity. Boca uses the same chipsets as everyone else, they have Windows drivers for all their video boards and as far as I've ever seen, they work just fine. I have a Boca Super VGA+ at home running Windows 3 and I love it. 1024x768x256 non-interlaced, for $150. How wrong can you go.