Just some more thoughts on multiple monitors.
I had a RasterOps Nubus video card in my plain old Dock. Yes, multiple
monitors is very nice if you do any kind of design work. I also have dual
monitors setup on my PowerComputing desktop- best of all, any game which
uses floating palettes, like Civ 2 or Yoot Tower supports dual monitors.
Just put the palettes on one monitor, and the game screen on the other.
Yes, I believe that you can support 3 monitors (with 2 nubus cards and
built-in video), but I've not tried it. Somewhere on David Every's site
(www.mackido.com) he has an article about that.
As for audio, if you can find one, a Digidesign Audiomedia board will work
without any problems. Not only is it supported in high-end audio packages
(like Deck II or SoundEdit 16), but Digidesign provides a patch into the
Sound Manager which allows you to use it exactly as internal sound, albeit
with 44.1 KHz sampling rate, 16-bit accuracy, and full stereo goodness.
Then you just need an amplifier and speakers for it (it uses RCA-jack
line-ins and -outs).
My only problem- where do you go to find a video memory upgrade for the
internal video? And what type of memory is it?
-Nathan
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> From: Erithacus rubecula
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> Sent: Thursday, October 7, 1999 5:09 PM
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> Subject: [Duo] Re: docks & monitors (Was:minis vs full docks)
>
> Hi Edgar,
> You guessed right. I'm not sure how much VRAM there is on the board but it
> won't run more than 256 colours (8bit card) but it will easily run a 17"
> mon (although I don't have one). The only oddity is that if I only run one
> monitor off the dock then the default monitor appears to be the nubus
> card.
> I can't for the life of me work out why this is so, all software tweaks
> work only if both monitors are connected. Not a big deal though.
>
> Where two monitors appears to be better (for me) than a larger monitor is
> that you can do the projects on two seperate screens that you describe. I
> recently started to design web pages (theyr'e not great so no addresses
> yet
> :-( ) but I use Claris Homepage to do my design in one page and then I
> have netscape open on the other monitor to check out how it will actually
> appear. I use Canvas from time to time and it's great for these progs to
> have all your floating palettes on one monitor whilst the document is left
> uncluttered on the other.
>
> In fact it always seems bizzare to me, given the discussion on mini-docks,
> that the common old garden dock is not recognised alot more for it's
> prowess. I have a hard drive in mine, extra VRAM, an extra nubus slot
> after
> the monitor (does anyone know if that means that I could run a third
> monitor?) and floppy. I don't mind reaching around the side to insert the
> floppy. In fact the only 'downside' of the dock from what I can see is
> that
> it doesn't support stereo out (or in?). Anyone figured out a work around
> to
> that? (I suppose an audio card could be installed).
>
> >Robin,
> >This is good news. Am I getting you right - you have one monitor
> >connected to the dock's video port, the other to the radius card? And you
> >can use both monitors the way you would with the duo's screen and an
> >external monitor connected via minidock? What amount of VRAM does your
> >NuBus card supply? I run my 2300c in a duodock (1MB VRAM) with Apple's
> >Portrait Monitor and would like to add a 15" NEC MultiSync - just to keep
> >the desktop and some application windows (such as Netscape) on a
> >different screen.
> >Would be nice if you could confirm my guesses - and thanks for the swift
> >reply
> >Edgar
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