Sorry folks, mail bounces again. Vesna: could you try to give me a _working_ EMail adress ? Set up one at hotmail or gmx or something if necessary. Your mail exchangers drive my MTA nuts, though I already tried some of your alternate addresses. > From: Andreas Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Vesna i Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Which "Permedia 2" card to choose? > > Hi - hope I get the mail through - my mailserver always hangs when sending > to your site. > > > We have word about Permedia 2, as one 100% supported with GGI (meaning KGI, > > Basically yes. Both Steffen and I have such a board. > > > I suppose it is like it with KGIcon too). > > Yes. I wrote/ported the kgicon driver, Steffen the KGI one. > > > So I found someone who could find me this video-card, and he asked me what > > variant: 4 or 8 MBy? > > I'd use 8MB. The card has 3D functionality and you are better off with more > texturemem and Z-Buffer and stuff if you have 8M. > > > My computer is Pentium 75V, 133MHz, 32 MBy RAM, and would it be OK to have > > those with 8 MBy? > > Yeah. No problem. Shouldn't make a big difference on price - right ? > > > And the other thing, maybe someone of those two is "better" than other one. > > I suppose Permedia with 8 MBy is better, but my expierinece tought me that: > > "... bigger is not always better..."(last " " sentence is smth stolen from > > different theme-)))) > > Yeah. > > > P.S. I have sent you a mail few weeks ago about loading picture into > > off-screen. Tematicaly, is it supposed to be done via direct-buffer? > > Basically this doesn't matter. You can do so with DirectBuffer as well as > with normal drawing commands. > > > Is it possible to do it and how?(For instance, load several different - > > not movie - bmps and then change them at request with ggCopyBox? > > Sure - no problem. Open a visual with multiple frames or bigger virtual > height. > > > Or maybe ggiCrossBlt?) > > That would be for blits between different visuals, so it is more generic and > will work, but is probably slower. > > CU, ANdy > > -- > = Andreas Beck | Email : <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =
