Indivision MKII. 800x600 mode

[Iggy]

You guys are doing nothing to encourage my adoption of these devices.
Artifacting on ATI and Nvidia GPUs usually only shows up after a prolonged period or after abuse (like overclocking).

All digital devices eventually fail, but this seems to be more common with today's hardware than with earlier hardware.

As I am just beginning to see a sharp rise in these problems appearing in old cards built on ATI R300 family (these cards having been out for a very long time), I am beginning to wonder if we will see similar problems over time with all newer GPUs.

If so, your legacy Amigas may out live "modern" hardware.

[Iggy]

ROHS is partly to blame, as is the insistence to keep pushing smaller and faster so you are always on the bleeding edge.

YES, I noticed a big upsurge in failures after the adoption of lead free solders.
But that can't be the only reason as i'm starting to see problems that pre-date that.

So, are all modern ICs doomed to eventual failure?

[Iggy]

I agree,  but in this case getting hold of an IndivisionMK2 card for the A4000 or CD32 seems impossible..  will Individual Computers do a batch run please..

If not then A-EON or Elbox need to bring out a new combo accelerator card with graphics output, it can be done for classic Amiga's.

I'm not holding my breathe though on Indivision..  so if Jens is reading this can we have a batch please??

I'm not sure A-eon would be interested and Elbox has already announced one (it will be available in about two weeks). You guys DO know I'm kidding about the last part, right?

But that may not be as impossible as I used to think.

With today hardware, an accelerator that centered around an FPGA chip ought to be possible.