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- Subject: Re: Why I don't like the new Orchid Pro (ET4000) drivers
- Message-ID: <712012812snx@lancea.actrix.gen.nz>
- From: lance@lancea.actrix.gen.nz (Lance Andrewes)
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 21:20:12 GMT
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- reisert@mast.enet.dec.com writes
- in article <9207231807.AA04004@enet-gw.pa.dec.com>:
- >
- > 1. 800x16 makes some of my icons invisible.
- Don't have that problem.
- >
- > 2. 800x16 turns some colors on my desktop (like green) into gray. Now I
- > have *fewer* than 16 colors! :-(
- Colours looks better on my system than the previous 0.9beta release.
- Green appears okay.
- >
- > 3. 800x256 is still washed out (colors lighter than they should be).
- Yes indeed. Why is it so hard to get the palette right?
- >
- > 4. 800x256 driver is *still* too slow to use.
- I consider the speed acceptable. But sure, it would be better
- if faster.
- >
- > 5. They take up too much disk space (approx 100K bytes more per file than
- > the old drivers).
- If you are worried about 100K, I wonder if you should be running OS/2?
- Sure, all the extra "100K's" add up, but a driver is pretty important.
- >
-
- I haven't tried the 1024x768 drivers, since my monitor isn't quite
- up to it. The 800x600 drivers "draw" much better than the previous
- release - i.e. when I return to the desktop from WinOS2 or dos, the
- screen is redrawn evenly, without coloured areas appearing first.
-
- The larger icons and text don't look so good. Diagonal lines in
- icons are jagged at this size.
-
- My system is a 20MHz 386SX, AMI BIOS, Swan Tseng4000 board (1MB),
- 8MB RAM. Yeap, not an Orchid card. So thanks Orchid - and keep
- up the good work.
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- _______ Email: lance@lancea.actrix.gen.nz
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