CompuServe Messages

Paul, excuse me for jumping in here, but I couldn't resist your "what do you want in a video card" question. 🙂 I have 2 different needs, which might be difficult to build into one card. I think a lot of the 3d animators are in the same boat. For 3d modeling, a huge shallow screen would be best. Something like 2k x 1k 16 colors. When it comes time to render, shift back to 768×482 24 bit. What would be ideal would be some kind of AGA mode for animation playback. If the board had it's own expandable RAM array, anim playback could be independant of the CPU/chipRAM bandwidth. While we're on the subject of hardware products… How about a Zorro card with the same chips the Clones use to talk to floppy drives? That would bypass the lock C= and Chinon have on those custom HD drives. It could also make possible using those cheap tape drives. Perhaps something like that could be 'tacked on' to an existing product, like the IO Extender? Just a thought…. Jim