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Post #15 by Elfen
Source ForumA weird 5300 — #15
CategoryHardware
Post DateWed, 3 Sep 2014 - 11:27
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/a-weird-5300.42/
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The two displays are entirely separate subsystems, each capable of only 16bit Color. There is no 24bit Card available for any of the PBX bridged, NuBus Architecture PPC-PBs. The addressing of the I/O bus is split, 16bits to the PCMCIA Card Cage and 16bits to the Video Card Connector.

I'm going from memory here, check the DevNotes, YMMV.
True, YMMV... But the Farallon (sic?) 5300 external monitor with Ethernet add-on card (according to the box) is 16 or 24Bit color. It wont work with the 190 however, its all over the box "5300 Only!". I believe its ROM is PowerPC only to save space shared with the video card ROM. It's also one hell of a hack as everything is on that tiny card on 3 or so chips! similar cards I've seen are 16bit only and are for both the 190 and 5300.

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