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Message from Steven
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James wrote:
>
> For displaying at 1152x864x16 a 2MB video card appears 
> to work fine.  But until I try this in something alot 
> faster than a P 90--despite the fact that this machine 
> has almost 100 MB of RAM

Did you try caching your pages in MagicPoint?  I don't
know whether it caches graphics or just scripts, but
it's worth a try.  If that worked, you'd be able to
give MagicPoint a few minutes to load the pages before 
your presentation starts.  But, as I say, I don't know
if MagicPoint will cache images.  I rarely use images
in my presentations (mainly because they are so slow
on a 486 laptop).

> Bottom line seems to be that if you want to display 
> at that resolution, you're going to want to use nothing 
> less than a P2 or equivalent.

As far as I am concerned, 1152x864x16 is an extreme 
resolution (which puts an unreasonable demand on an 
old PC).  800x600x15 is more than adequate for ordinary 
use.  Even 640x480x15 should be enough for the sort of
images that come through your average PowerPoint projector.

Cheers,
Steven