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flitape

    11-Feb-94 23:23:17
Sb: #83161-flitape
Fm: Thomas Flannery 73160,121
To: Paul Vaala 73404,1732
Paul, This is a tough one… I've spent a lot of time trying to get combinations of video cards, frame buffers and the Magni to work together, and I've never come across a driver that could work with a standard VGA type card. The problem is most likely technical since the Magni reqiures the feature connector of the VGA card for signal pass through. The driver would have to be able to control the VGA cad video memory while at the same time have it display what is required for the application, in this case Animator Pro. I think all of those things are matter/anti-matter in the video world. I may be totally wrong, but I've had one hell of a time getting my Magni and my video card to work with various programs. I use a CG (character generator) from Sheriff systems and it will only work with specific chip sets. Then if you crank up the refresh rate of the monitor… everything gets wierd… Sooo…. I think you can get a targa clone from Visionetics (see AV Video January page 38 PH# 310-316-9470 ) They are cheaper than a Targa+ and I think the results are supposed to be comprable.