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- From: b87y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Subject: Re: Star 10X printer driver
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.174611.16743@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
- Date: 9 Jan 93 17:46:11 EST
- References: <C0CB3K.8s0@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <24605@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM>
- Summary: Origin of Gemini 10X driver; Don't use MARK30!
- Distribution: comp
- Organization: Cornell University
- Lines: 46
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- In article <24605@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM>,
- bill@solaria (Bill Neisius) writes:
- > Iskandar Taib (ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu) wrote:
- > : In article <24590@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM> bill@solaria.hac.com writes:
- > : >Erik Petersen (peterse@prism.CS.ORST.EDU) wrote:
- > : >The SG10 driver is the original Star 10X driver from Windows 1.0.
- > : >The modification was simply running it through MARK30 to remove the warning
- > : >message that accompanies old Windows applications; and creating an
- > : >OEMSETUP.INF. The really difficult part was finding a set of the Windows 1.0
- > : >disks....
- > :
- > : Hmmmm
- > :
- > : Doesn't this thing emulate another printer, perhaps an Epson
- > : MX80 or IBM Proprinter?
- >
- > Well, yes and no. The original Star 10X was somewhat compatible
- > with Epson... but not enough that it could use Epson graphics drivers.
- > One problem was the vertical increment on the Star was 1/144 versus
- > 1/216 on the Epson.
- >
- > Later models of the 10X greatly improved the emulation; a switch
- > was added to select "IBM mode" or "Star mode", the IBM mode being
- > Epson compatible. The models that have the mode switch are usually
- > called 'SG10', the models without the mode switch 'Star Gemini 10X'.
- > The models changed around 1984-85.
- >
- >
- > Bill Neisius
- > bill@solaria.hac.com
-
- That's right. About 6 months ago, I wrote a program to essentially
- fixed the vertical spacing problem. This is probably what people
- are calling "a modified version of the Epson driver". However,
- I never released that program because a friendly network person
- mailed me a copy of the old driver from windows 1.0 before it was
- done, and its perfromance was OK (though not as elaborate). I sent
- it off to a few people over the network wwho had signed up to be
- beta testers for me. One of them probably posted it, though they
- may have been confused over whether it was modified or not.
-
- Anyway, I did not need to use MARK30 in order to use that driver under
- Windows 3.1...
-
- danr@ee.cornell.edu
-
-