On Sat, 16 Jun 2001 14:48:41 +0200, John VanSickle wrote:
>Ron Parker wrote:
>> 
>> What is a "standard" Amiga video board?  The Amiga over in the corner
>> of my office only supports 12-bit color in HAM mode, and 6-bit color
>> in high resolution.
>
>Commodore updated the hardware a year before they went belly-up.  The
>HAM mode went from 12-bit to 24-bit color.  The A600, A1200, and A4000
>had the newer chipset.  One could also buy full-blown video cards that
>had 24-bit color.

Yeah, actually I knew that.  I played with an A4000+Toaster for a while, 
but my point was that there isn't a standard anymore, and something that
works with the new graphics chips won't work on the older machines.  And
my older machine is actually a fairly respectable example of an older 
machine, since it has an 030/882 accelerator and a fair bit of RAM.  (It's
a 2000 with a GForce '030 card.)  Unfortunately, time has taken its toll 
on the GForce card, and the SIMMs don't seat properly.  The poor devil
won't boot anymore.

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