re: Using fonts > 255 points

[spector@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

90taobri@CHASM.SCAR.UTORONTO.CA (Brian Tao) writes...
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>certainly within the capabilities of a 4.25-meg GS.  It also makes those
>8-megabyte cards look *very* attractive.  ;-)

   This has little to do with the orginal thread, but your mention of 8 megabyte
RAM cards for the IIgs caught my eye! :) I'm currently running my ROM 3 system
with 2.125 Mb, though I'd like to increase my memory size to something more
suitable to my needs; especially once I buy a hardrive! ;-) 

   My orginal plans were to buy the 4mb RAM-GS from Sequential Systems, but
I just noticed an ad in InCider/A+ that CV-Technologies is offering a *new*
8 megabyte ramcard! Apparently it comes with 4Mb soldered on (like the RAM-GS),
yet it has the plus side that it can be expanded to 5,6,7, or a full 8megs on
the same card...no piggybacking or other tricks. This sounds great, and worth
the extra $50 or so, but I'm wondering about a few things. First, how reliable
is the card, and does it stay fully DMA compatible up to 8 megs? The other thing
I'm wondering is, my ROM 3 has 1meg standard and adding a stock 8-mb CV Tech
card will bring it to 5megs. Will that 5 megs be DMA compatible? I remember 
hearing the GS is only DMA with up to 4 megs ram...but what happens when there's
1 megabyte on the motherboard and only 4 megs in the memory expansion slot?

   I'd like to hear from others who've already bought this new card....
(Btw, this is _not_ the CV tech card that was expandable to 4mb on the card,
and another 4mb via the piggyback connector on it's side for a total of 8megs.)

>-- Real name: Brian Tao (Dept. of Exobiology, University of Toronto)

Mitchell Spector
Concordia University
spector@vax2.concordia.ca