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Date:	Thu, 8 Dec 2005 14:24:45 PST8
From:	Colin Campbell <cmcampb@adelphia.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Video card for Scitech SNAP driver 3.0.0.

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jack.huffman@worldnet.att.net wrote:
> Will someone please suggest several good and reasonably priced video cards
> to use with Scitech's SNAP driver assuming: (1) no graphics allowed and
> (2) graphics use.
>
> I make this distinction because the read me says there must be 512 mb of
> memory on the card for SNAP graphics to work.
>
> I think there is a later version, 3.0.1 or 2 but I haven't tracked it
> down.
>
> TIA
>
> Jack
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> jack.huffman@worldnet.att.net
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
Jack,
I have two PC's on which I'm actively running eCS, and using the SciTech
SNAP driver.

The older one was made by Indelible Blue (the late, lamented OS/2
support business), and it's nearing 4 years old. It has a Matrox
MGA-G400 video card with 32MB of memory to drive a Viewsonic E773 17
inch monitor at 1024 x 768 resolution. I also run Win2K Pro on this
machine.

The newer one is a Dell Dimension 8400 purchased in early January, 2005.
It has an ATI Radeon X300 Series video card with 128MB, driving a Dell
E193FP (19 inch flat panel) monitor at 1280 x 1024. This machine came
with WinXP Home, and I use that from time to time.

I'm quite happy with both of these machines/video cards/monitors. The
CRT and flat panel seem to have different "looks", but I don't know
quite how to describe the differences. The flat panel seems to show
text on the desktop in dots, while the text on the CRT is more normal
looking, as if generated by a typewrite key or something. A folder icon
on the flat panel also seems to show the outline as dots, while on the
CRT, they look like lines. Both have good readability.

I don't know anything to say about the graphics question.

SciTech's web site has a list of 235 chip sets that are supported for
OS/2, so picking one should be easy, especially after you have received
a few more recommendations.

Happy hunting,
Colin

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