CompuServe Messages

Bill, Yes, that's right. I have a switchbox I got from JDR Micro along with some cables and just switch over the monitor when I run the BB. Until CBM or someone else makes a BB for the Amiga which supports VGA through the Amiga, this is about the only solution I know of unless you're willing to live with CGA. I guess if you don't run windows you can live with CGA and DOS, but I chose to go the other route. The switchbox wasn't all that expensive even with the two cables. I use one monitor, a CBM 1950 multisync and just use the switchbox to connect either to the VGA card or to the flickerfixer. Works well, but of course I had to use the only other 16 bit slot available. Consequently, my hard drive controller had to be limited to an 8 bit controller. I didn't know much aabout the performance characteristics of an 8 bit IDE controller, so I use an 8 bit SCSI controller, a Seagate ST02. It cost a whopping $34.00 and delivers good performance for an 8 bit SCSI. All in all it makes for a quite usable windows system even though the 386 BB only runs at 20 Mhz. I run Hyperdisk for disk caching on the PC side to help improve disk transfers. If you didn't want to go the same route you can buy a multifunction card which has VGA, serial and parallel ports, and an IDE controller all on one card for about $275. The switchbox and cables will run another $40 or so.