In article <48E32CB2.8050107@hawaii.rr.com>, david <gnome@hawaii.rr.com> writes:
Richard wrote:
In article <48E1B535.7060202@hawaii.rr.com>, david <gnome@hawaii.rr.com> writes:
But my favorite video card for Fractint was a Hercules graphics card. ;-)
...only because fractint never tried to use your graphics card as anything other than a dumb frame buffer.
Which was all it needed to be under DOS.
Sure, but graphics cards have moved way beyond that now. What fractint does with your video card now is purely a legacy compatability codepath that is the slowest way to use a modern video card, where "modern" is anything from the past 10 years. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html> Legalize Adulthood! <http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/>