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Opinions on VGA-to-TV scan converters??

2 posts by 2 people · 26 Sep 1995 - 29 Sep 1995

Jimbo 26 Sep 1995#305757
Hi, I was wondering if anyone has tried one of those things. I know there's a couple of them available. Most of them say 640x480, and I wasn't sure if they would work with NASCAR 320x200 mode? And what would the quality be like? Any comments? Also, and this is a slight tangent from the topic, but could anyone recommend a good, but reasonably priced video card for running games such as NASCAR? My main computer is a workstation, and I don't know much about PCs, but I've heard that some cards perform better under DOS and some are good for windows but not really great with DOS. I know there are a lot of neat new cards, but I would like to stay in the ~200 range. Is it even possible to get a decent card for this price? I guess what I'm asking is, if you had about 200 bucks to get as good of a video card as you could, for the sole purpose of running NASCAR (pathetic as that sounds!! :-), what would it be? One final question relating to running NASCAR - is there any performance disadvantage to going with an AMD or Cyrix 486 instead of Intel? Thanks for any help, Jim
Mike5001 29 Sep 1995#305855
writes: As for your question about video cards, one avoid Reveal; something with a port address conflicts with sound cards, and causes you to see white dots on the screen. Right now I'm in the process of building a computer for my room and found a Diamond Stealth 64 w/ 2 megs DRAM for $199.97. If you want values, look inthis big catalouge called The Computer Shopper. This thing weighs about 5 pounds, but is well worth it. It has adds for every thing from 220 mHz Penium systems with 128 megs RAM, to mouse pads, and everything is priced very reasonably.

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