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Offline motorollin

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Re: USB Video Card
« on: January 31, 2006, 07:14:07 AM »
I can't think of a reason why it would not be possible. It would, however, be a lot of work. Porting a driver would be half the job - RTG drivers would also have to be written to allow you to actually display anything. And if you already have a Mediator to get the USB ports, then you have access to PCI graphics cards anyway, which are not only neater as they are internal, but would perform bettern than USB video cards anyway.

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Re: USB Video Card
« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2006, 08:26:58 AM »
The only way this would be truely useful would be if we could get USB 2.0 without a Mediator. AFAIK the only bus fast enough on an A1200 is the trapdoor expansion connector. If there was an accelerator with USB 2.0 built in, then it could be installed in a desktop A1200, and then a USB graphics card could be connected to it. This *would* be quite cool, as desktop A1200 owners could then have RTG graphics.

But then, you could just use a BlizzardVision, which would probably perform better.

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