From: wlfshmn@ramses.ml.org
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 18:06:58 +0200 (CEST)

Re: Old MGA chipset drivers.

On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Neal Tucker wrote:

> wlfshmn@ramses.ml.org says:
> > I'm not dropping the drivers however, they will be there, just a bit
> > later, since they are old chipsets anyway, not too many people actually
> > run them (Even though they are nice cards and my 1993 card outperforms the
> > Virge in my Win 98 machine and Multihead without trouble)...
> 
> I've never tried Virge multihead, and I'm not sure if anyone else has
> had problems with it, but out of curiosity I asked a friend of mine
> who works at S3 whether or not it was doable.  He said that the cards
> don't have an explicit VGA-disable, but you can just yank the BIOS off
> the card and everything works fine.
> 
Oh, just to clarify, I never tried the Virge multiheaded, only the
Mystique and the Ultima, and not under GGI either.. I was only checking if
my Ultima could handle it at all (beeing from 1993 it's a pretty nice
card, on the other hand, they tell me it cost an arm and a leg at the time
:) )

> I meant to try this out, but he took his extra virge card back from me,
> and now I only have one.  :-)
> 
> -Neal Tucker
>