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- From: johns@mcs213i.cs.umr.edu (John Stone)
- Subject: Re: Video7/Headland Cards
- References: <BxyysD.5IG@scd.hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:01:52 GMT
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- Organization: University of Missouri - Rolla
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- Hi there,
-
- I too am a Video 7 user....
-
- I have a VRAM VGA I (not II).
-
- I've been extremely pleased with this card in every respect EXCEPT
- OS/2 support. I (like you) have sent them at least 20 different
- mails (on their support BBS) asking what the deal is, and they
- have lied to me, changed their story, and finally just said
- "No, we're not writing any OS/2 drivers."
-
- Way back in early march of '92, I had asked them about OS/2 drivers and
- they claimed that they were working on them... They had said at that
- time that they would be finished by the end of March, or early
- April. Fine, so I wait about 4 weeks, and call 'em again.
- This time they say "We aren't quite done yet, it will be another 3 or 4
- weeks, call us then."
-
- So its the end of April, and I call 'em up and ask once again, this time
- "OS/2 drivers? We can't write any because IBM hasn't released any of
- the code we need." I say "What??? You said that they would be DONE by now!!!"
- they say: "No, we haven't even started yet..." I say "so when do you think
- they'll be done now???" they say: "Not until august at the earliest, maybe
- even later."
-
- So I let 'em go for a month or so (on the OS/2 topic anyway) and check back
- this september only to discover that they have been bought by someone else,
- and they won't be offering ANY tech support on the BBS until some later
- point in time. The message on the support BBS now says something to the
- effect of "There is NO projected date for OS/2 2.0 drivers, until such time
- please use the OS/2 1.2 drivers..." Unfortunately the 1.2 drivers don't
- work at all with the CSD installed...
-
- I personally have decided to get off of the Video Seven boat, as I'm afraid
- they are sinking fast. They made great cards in their heyday, and were
- once the very best in support, but now the mighty have fallen and they
- seem to be abandoning everything but autocad and windows.
-
- And since I use OS/2 24 hours 7 days a week now (no dos EVER!!!! :-)
- I can't live with any more "it will be out Real Soon Now" excuses.
-
- I'm probably going to get an ATI or a Radius card...
-
- Oh, by the way, the generic Video Seven driver just put out (vga800.dll)
- doesn't work with my card either, same problem. I guess only the VRAM II
- works with it...
-
- Later,
- John Stone
- johns@cs.umr.edu
-
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