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In article <3l70qc$g...@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, dre...@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu says...
>
>I am trying to use the DEVIL editor but every time I run it it stops its
>initialization and says it can initialize my graphic display.  I have a VESA
>system but I can't find the recommended 'vesa.com' command the docs say I
>should try if this happens.  I have a Cirrus Logic SVGA card and none of the
>disks it came with looks like a memory resident driver.  Any help would be
>greatly appreciated.  L8R...Sean
>
>dre...@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
>
I had a similar problem.  The way I fixed it was to call a vesa driver just before 
I ran DEVIL.  I used a generic vesa driver that came with a graphics viewer 
program called DISPLAY.  It a really nice freeware viewing program that handles 
most formats and has a ton of features.  Anyway there was a vesa driver in the 
DRIVER subdirectory of the DISPLAY program.   I think the latest version is called 
DISP187A.ZIP and DISP187B.ZIP  Install these using the -d option of PKUNZIP, this 
will restore the directory structure of the program.  Then I set up a batch 
program called START.BAT that contained the following two lines:

SET GO32=DRIVER C:\DISPLAY\DRIVERS\VESA111.VDR
DEVIL

Vesa111.vdr was the video driver from DISPLAY that worked with my board, though it 
should work with most VESA compatible cards.  Good luck.

Regards,

Randy Hester

: In article <3l70qc$g...@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, dre...@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu says...
: >
: >I am trying to use the DEVIL editor but every time I run it it stops its
: >initialization and says it can initialize my graphic display.  I have a VESA
: >system but I can't find the recommended 'vesa.com' command the docs say I
: >should try if this happens.  I have a Cirrus Logic SVGA card and none of the
: >disks it came with looks like a memory resident driver.  Any help would be
: >greatly appreciated.  L8R...Sean
: >
: >dre...@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
: >

   I have a Cirrus Logic SVGA card too, it did the same thing, but I have a
VESA Super VGA driver called Univesa.  It can be found at:

ftp: oak.oakland.edu
path: /simtel/msdos/vga/uvesa42.zip

It doesn't cost anything to use and it works fine.


Good luck,
Joshua Cantrell
s...@crl.com
j...@rop.edu

Excerpts from netnews.alt.games.descent: 27-Mar-95 DEVIL editor won't
work wit.. by daly sean@uxa.cso.uiuc.e 
> I am trying to use the DEVIL editor but every time I run it it stops its
> initialization and says it can initialize my graphic display.  I have a VESA
> system but I can't find the recommended 'vesa.com' command the docs say I
> should try if this happens.  I have a Cirrus Logic SVGA card and none of the
> disks it came with looks like a memory resident driver.  Any help would be
> greatly appreciated.  L8R...Sean

You need to load a bios extension like univesa.com with cirrus video
cards to giive them vull Vesa 1.2 compatibility...  That is why DEVIL
won't run...

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