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#EGS Spectrum

    19-Oct-93 18:09:47
Sb: #118492-#EGS Spectrum
Fm: Roy S. Laufer 72435,1025
To: Mark Cleary 74776,263
Unfortunately since I am not a reviewer but a user, I can not give you a comparison of different graphics boards. I am also at a loss to describe how the Spectrum EGS works in Zorro III mode, since it is very difficult to acquire a revision 11 SuperBuster (the no longer busted Buster), I am still running in Zorro II mode. The Spectrum is VERY pretty, but it is something that the user has to get acclimated to. I still find the 800x600x24 screen too flickery (atleast on my particular A1950), although by decreasing the screen's dimension a little helps alot! A few programs don't take kindly to an EGS workbench clone on my A3000/3.0 OS (Caligari, CanDo). It's a little disconcerting to find that the screen shuffling gadget will only shuffle native amiga screens or EGS screens, but not both (using amiga-m, though will shuffle thru all screens). Presently my WB screen is configured as 1056×768 with DirOpus and FinalCopy on it (VERY NICE!). ADPro works on regular amiga screens (but an EGS using update is being planned), SBase seems to work fine (it opens in a WBClone-like screen). GVP says that running Zorro III will speed up screen redraws, but I can't even guess when I'm gonna be able to acquire a SuperBuster chip to test this. If you have any other questions, feel free to ask! // ** Commodore ** \X/ -<Comment left to the reader's imagination>- -RSL-