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Old 09-30-2006 | 09:11 AM
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Default RE: Dual Monitors

BTW, there was a rumor years ago about one of the first flying game sims. Think it was Fighting Falcon.

The word was that a military school had used an Amiga and then hacked the app's code. The Amiga was the first multi-tasker available. (It was multi-tasking at the same time MS was explaining to everyone why multi-tasking was an impossibility for pc's) These schoolboys supposedly had three or four monitors showing consecutively.

The explanantion was that they'd hacked the code so the path that worked up the current view was paralleled. They supposedly wrote a patch that either got 3-4 loops through the video code going, or kicked off alternate programs that were just the video path.

With the capability of the Amiga back then compared to the pc's of that day, a lot of us believed that it was possible.