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- From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
- Subject: Re: 132 Column displays
- Keywords: VGA
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.035855.28147@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 03:58:55 GMT
- Article-I.D.: qiclab.1992Sep9.035855.28147
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- Organization: SCN Research/Qic Laboratories of Tigard, Oregon.
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- eomc40@festival.ed.ac.uk (K McBain) writes:
-
- >Does anyone know of any public domain or shareware software that allow
- >132 columns to be displayed on a "normal" PC. We can do it with the
- >Trident graphics card, as it provides some extra software, but on our IBM PS/2's
- >we do not have the same luck.
-
- This requires *hardware* support. If your video adapter can do it, it'll
- almost certainly have drivers for it. If it can't, no drivers are going to
- help. Also, the mode numbers used aren't standardized either, so what
- works on one card won't work on another.
-
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- Leonard Erickson leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com
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