El-Fish Demo: ET3000 needs lowrez version

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4 total messages Started by rmg5... Ryan Grant Tue, 25 May 1993 08:33

#717

Author: rmg5... Ryan Grant
Date: Tue, 25 May 1993 08:33

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I am attempting to run the El-Fish demo.
Apparantly, it does not like my Tseng ET3000 based video board, because
even with a VESA driver loaded it tells me El-Fish will not work on it,
when I attempt to install.

Does anyone have:
A) The documentation the demo referred to regarding supported chipsets
B) Authorataive information on whether an ET3000 card can work in hirez mode
C) The Low resolution demo available by FTP

Any help greatly appreciated, I need the relaxation of a working fishtank,
even more now that installing the demo is turning out such a hassle.

- Ryan

Re: El-Fish Demo: ET3000 needs lowrez version

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Author: zoi... Chris Blackwell
Date: Tue, 25 May 1993 18:48

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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
: even with a VESA driver loaded it tells me El-Fish will not work on it,
: when I attempt to install.

: Does anyone have:
: A) The documentation the demo referred to regarding supported chipsets
: B) Authorataive information on whether an ET3000 card can work in hirez mode
: C) The Low resolution demo available by FTP

: Any help greatly appreciated, I need the relaxation of a working fishtank,
: even more now that installing the demo is turning out such a hassle.

: - Ryan

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.

-Chris

Re: El-Fish Demo: ET3000 needs lowrez version

#720

Author: Richard M. Hartman
Date: Tue, 25 May 1993 22:43

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In article <C7Kq...@news.cso.uiuc.edu> rmg5...@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Ryan Grant) writes:
>I am attempting to run the El-Fish demo.
>Apparantly, it does not like my Tseng ET3000 based video board, because
>even with a VESA driver loaded it tells me El-Fish will not work on it,
>when I attempt to install.

Try running the reconfig.exe, the configuration left by install
doesn't seem to work on a lot of machines.

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Re: El-Fish Demo: ET3000 needs lowrez version

#719

Author: rmg5... Ryan Grant
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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