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Article #719Re: El-Fish Demo: ET3000 needs lowrez version
From: rmg5... Ryan Grant
Date: Wed, 26 May 1993 05:26
Date: Wed, 26 May 1993 05:26
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zoi...@netcom.com (Chris Blackwell) writes: >Ryan Grant (rmg5...@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu) wrote: >: I am attempting to run the El-Fish demo. >: Apparantly, it does not like my Tseng ET3000 based video board, because >El-Fish will work in Hi-Res on any system which has a VESA BIOS extension >installed that supports VESA mode 100h, which is 640x400 256 color. There are >a number of VESA extensions that don't support this mode, particularly if it >is a device driver provided from a source other than the manufacturer of the >card. The VESA drivers I have found (card predates VESA, so not on install disk) did not support 100h for my Orchid Prodesigner+, I guess it's the chips, because the driver does bother to support 100h on ET4000 based Orchid cards. Thanks for the clarification. Anyone got the low resolution version? - Ryan Grant
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