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Anonymous
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2002/03/06 01:50
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Can I plug ISA card into ISA slot such as a VGA 8bit?



Alex_GoryachevAdministrator
(Sprinter Team)
2002/03/06 14:34
Re: ISA new [re: Anonymous]Reply to this post

If you can found it...
So, 8 bit VGA card will work if somebody wrote driver for it. Sprinter has standard ISA-8. But we haven't this card.

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Hawk
(stranger )
2002/03/06 19:40
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I found only one 8-bit VGA card. (Vintage Paradise).
Here are the links to Dell web site where you can get specs on that card.

http://support.euro.dell.com/docs/dta/PARAVGA/

I was thinking myself about trying to attach the this card to Sprinter computer after I get the latter one. (I have the card on my old computer in the lab...)

But shortly I understood that the my efforts may be not worth it.

Consider the following options...

1. You need to write a driver for an old card that has almost no specs.
2. Not too many users will be able to get this card even if you write the drivers.
3. 8-bit cards have normally 256kb of Ram (the same number of colors)- so what a hell am I gonna invent a VGA adapter which is already on board.
4. You need to persuade "Sprinter Co.) to include the drivers into PLD to initialize the card.

SO, I'm not playing this game with 8-bit cards. But we need to make Sprinter team to produce an SVGA adapter or smth similar to connect easily to a standard monitor...




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