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Avance Logic ALG2301.B
Avance Logic ALG2301.B
Avance Logic ALG2301.B HQ
Avance Logic ALG2301.B HQ
WG-2000P
WG-2000P
WG-2000P HQ
WG-2000P HQ
WG-2000P with Creative Video Blaster
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2012-05-13 20:28:13 |87.112.199.xxx| tahrey
NB interlace mode is pretty horrible, which meant 1280x1024 was something of an irrelevance even on the fancy high-frequency 15" monitor we had with it, but may now be MORE usable thanks to LCD displays auto-de-interlacing (Amiga hi-rez modes are better now than they were in the 80s, too).
Best choice was usually 800x600 or 1024x768 in 8-bit... Quick, looked quite decent, just had an occasional palette clash.
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Surprisingly good considering it was supposedly low-end, in 1994. Was the card in our first, DX2/66 PC (of that year), and it gave sterling service in that and other gradually cheaper/limited use and more knocked-together machines through to the millennium. Still use it for a basic display in test rigs from time to time.
Available with a 2mb option, as ours was. Only discernable advantage of that was it allowed 256 colours in 1280x1024 mode... and maybe additional pages in the lower resolutions, but I don't know if it made good use of that. The DAC was a limiting factor anyway, it could only do 43Hz interlaced mode at 1280x1024.
Available modes:
640x480, 24 bit, 60Hz.
640x480, 4 / 8 / 15 / 16 bit, 60/70/72/75 Hz non-interlace.
800x600, 16 bit, 60Hz.
800x600, 4 / 8 bit, 56 / 60 / 70 / 72 / 75 Hz non-interlace.
1024x768, 4 / 8 bit, 43 Hz interlace, 60 / 70 / 72 / 75 Hz non-interlace.
1280x1024, 4 (1mb) / 8 (2mb) bit, 43 Hz interlace only.
As well as various colour and refresh modes up to 15, 16 or 24 bit / 75 Hz in lower resolutions (320x480, 512x384, 640x400, 720x512 etc). Came with a Win 3.1 utility for basic rez/colour/rate setting in windows, and a comprehensive one for DOS which allowed picking, testing and setting a wide variety of modes and setting up common DOS-mode programs to work with it... particularly high-density textmodes like 132x60 (presumably 800x600 (792x600...) or 1024x768 (1056x720? 780?) underneath?) which I have rarely seen since even on far more modern cards.
Win 9x drivers a bit scrappy but can be convinced to work OK with a bit of poking, revealing all the modes available under 3.1.
640x480x24 a little slow, but 640x480x16 worked fairly well for video playback e.g. from Encarta or the Win95 demo files. Naturally, it kind of fell to bits with 3D, but we still had a crack at playing things like Need for Speed, Screamer, Final Fantasy 7 with it and it slogged through OK.