On Sunday 30 July 2006 18:19, James Richard Tyrer wrote: > Dieter wrote: > >> I've never seen a common off the shelf graphics card that had > >> jumpers designed for setting unusual video modes. > > > > So the junk in the big box stores gets something wrong, therefore > > you want to get it wrong also? > > A card that supports monitors that don't run 640x480 is a specialty > product. Such cards are available but not in big box stores.
Yes, you could buy the one at http://www.si87.com/Products/Videocards/titan.html for example, may even be slightly faster than OGC1. Windows-only though. Or this one, http://www.multimedianet.com/Mirage/ultra/, which claims to work with XFree86 as well as "commercial" drivers, and has hardware T&L!. If you have a Mac with an old Mac fixed-frequency monitor, you can get the card at http://www.welovemacs.com/mpddpro.html I haven't been able to find any new fixed frequency monitors currently for sale. Most material on the web seems to be from the late nineties up to a few years ago, and it talks about ten year old workstation monitors salvaged from the dump. There does not currently appear to be an easy solution for using these with a PC, other than buying one of the above video cards and using Windows. Of course, if you are going to do that anyway, you can just buy a different monitor and use your existing card. Right now, we are apparently discussing whether the board should support the guy who has a ten to fifteen year old fixed-frequency monitor that he salvaged from a dumpster somewhere, a PC, a non-Windows OS, and no ability at all to obtain a non-FF PC monitor to replace his fixed-frequency one, or borrow (perhaps from the same dumpster he got his fixed-frequency monitor from) an old VGA monitor to configure his BIOS and programme his OGC1. I say we just buy him a nice multisync monitor. That's probably a lot cheaper than adding jumpers or switches to the card. Lourens
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