[GEM Development] The OpenGEM Interviews

[Liam Proven]

John Elliott wrote:

>   No, the PC1640 couldn't do the PC1512's 640x200x16 mode; it did EGA
> 640x200x16 instead, which gets the same results but with hardware
> acceleration. It could also do Plantronics 640x200x4. 

EGA had acceleration? News to me. Or was this specific to Amstrad EGA? 
Which would still be news to me, but slightly less surprising. I didn't 
think PC GUI accelerators came along 'til another few years after that.

>   One fun point is that according to
> <http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=YjfMmNARDql4Ewx5%40perry.co.uk> the
> PC1640 still has the original PC1512 video circuitry (disabled) as well as
> its own Paradise EGA chipset.

Good grief! I never knew. However did you find that?

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