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- From: mikew@hpwarha.wal.hp.com (Michael Williams)
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 20:50:04 GMT
- Subject: Re: Diamond SpeedStar 24X REVIEW
- Message-ID: <3620@hpwala.wal.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Waltham, MA
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- In article <1992Sep1.162651.12194@infonode.ingr.com> bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown) writes:
- >stretch@emunix.emich.edu (Brian Stretch) writes:
- >>Unfortunately, I've yet to find any DOS graphics software that is compatible
- >>with the 1meg Paradise chip, and not all the 512K Paradise software worked
- >>either. CShow (newest version at this time) displayed correctly at
- >>640x480x256 and 800x600x256 with its Paradise drivers, but VPic 5.0's failed.
- >
- >Vpic 4.8 works just fine on the 24X in vesa modes. I coulnd't get
- >vpic 5.0 to work in this mode either, so I use 4.8. Also, PICLAB
- >1.91 hangs with the 24X, but 1.82 works fine. I wonder, what's going
- >on here? I have hacked my own begware gif viewer, sgif, to support
- >all the 256 color modes on the 24X. It is in the GIF directory on
- >simtel. The file is SGIF17.ZIP.
-
- I couldn't get any of my DOS SuperVGA software to operate correctly,
- either, in any of the VESA modes that I bought the card for. The
- Diamond Computer Systems BBS (sorry; I don't have the number here at
- work) has a TSR program called VESA.COM or VESA.EXE that seems to fix
- the problem (and, thankfully, easily loads high). With this program
- installed, I can use VPIC 5.0's VESA modes just fine. Last I heard, it
- had been inadvertently left off of the distribution disks.
-
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- Michael B. Williams
- Hewlett-Packard Company
- Medical Products Group
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