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- SUPPRESS Version 1.06 12/27/86
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- Suppress was written in a fit of pique. Why does every game insist
- that I have a color screen simply because I have a CGA card? I have a
- CGA card and a GREEN screen not a $600 color monitor. The game
- instructions are printed in multiple colors which appear unreadable.
- The game itself is unplayable. Then along came SUPPRESS, SUPPRESS is a
- video preprocessor. It traps all screen writes at the BIOS level and
- SUPPRESSes the color. It does it by inserting itself at BIOS INT 10h
- and preprocessing the call to INT 10h before calling BIOS. Obviously,
- the games that write directly to the video buffer will not show any
- improvement. However, any game using DOS or BIOS calls for screen I/O
- should greatly improve.
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- When should you use SUPPRESS ?
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- Whenever a program thinks your GREEN screen is a color monitor. If
- a program displays hard to read output due to similar shading of the
- background and the characters, try SUPPRESS.
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- How does SUPPRESS work ?
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- SUPPRESS is a terminate and stay resident ( TSR ) program. You run
- SUPPRESS once and it is ready until you reboot. SUPPRESS takes over
- INT 10h ( BIOS Video call ). It looks at the request being made BEFORE
- BIOS sees it. It then decides what, if any, preprocessing needs to be
- done to ensure legable output. To remove SUPPRESS you MUST reboot.
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- TRY IT, IT CAN'T HURT !
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- HISTORY:
- Version Date Description
- 1.00 11/10/86 Original release
- 1.01 11/11/86 Masked all foreground colors either on or off
- 1.02 11/14/86 Masked all background colors either on or off
- 1.03 11/22/86 Added check for already resident
- 1.04 11/23/86 Fixed bug with black on black displays
- 1.05 11/30/86 Set B & W mode at install incase application checks
- Improved check for monochrome monitors
- 1.06 12/27/86 Added limited support for graphics screen i/o.