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- From: leo@rulhp2.leidenuniv.nl (L. Mekenkamp)
- Subject: RE: Problem running DOS apps
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.180411.21418@rulway.LeidenUniv.nl>
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- Organization: Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science ; Univ. of Leiden ; the Netherlands
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 18:04:11 GMT
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- >Hello, I have a "small" problem on my machine that I thought someone else
- >might have run into.
-
- >I'm running Win 3.1 on a 386-33MHz with 4meg of ram. When I orginally
- >installed windows, the box had an EGA video card in it (Video-7 VEGA
- >(old! circa 1987)). In this configuration, Dos shells would startup
- >correctly, but Dos apps (such as Wordperfect 5.0, kermit 3.11, etc.)
- >would sometimes startup "without" a font (or the appearance of such).
- >The program would load and run and move the cursor around as it wrote
- >to the screen/window, but it was black-on-black. This occured no
- >matter how I configured the Pifs, or installed the app. If I quit
- >and restarted the app several times, I could usually get it to startup ok.
- >
- >Being a contractor, my machine gets the hand-me-downs.... I recently
- >got an old VGA card (video-7 VEGA VGA card, circa late 1987). This
- >card is supposed to be true to "basic" VGA at 640x480. It also will do
- >16 color at 800x600 (SuperVGA??).
- >
- >Now, *all* my Dos apps load and run with black-on-black fonts!?!?!
- >The cursor flies around, but never a word to be read..... The windows
- >apps seem to work ok. Doing what I was doing under EGA doesn't help,
- >and I've re-installed several Dos apps, trying every different
- >combination of settings in the Pif that I can think of. I tried
- >re-installing the video driver as Super-VGA, several of the supplied
- >drivers for Video-7 stuff, and several drivers from cica.indiana.edu.
- >
- >At this point, I'm sure what to try...
- >
-
-
- Try running OS/2 2.0 ;-)
- I once had some video-problems in a DOS box. Never really knew what went wrong.
- The problems were over after I re-installed Windows...
-
-
- Leo
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