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UniVBE works under NT!



Mat Hostetter wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "Ryou" == Ryou Seong-Joon <stjohn@hnc.co.kr> writes:
> 
>     Ryou> By the way, My computer is 486-DX/2 66 MHz with 16MB of RAM,
>     Ryou> and I found out video card (3 years old ET4000-W32i) is not
>     Ryou> vesa-compatible, Cause I found out the problem is gone with
>     Ryou> my friends NT machine (same configuration, except video card
>     Ryou> is more recent ET4000-W32p or so..)  It says VBE 1.2 and
>     Ryou> works fine.
> 
> OK.
> 
>     Ryou> 2. Executor tries to use 16 colors when I see Alt-Shift-5
>     Ryou> Panel..  256 color mode is dimmed out.
> 
> Did you know that Lemmings only draws black and white when there are
> fewer than 256 colors available?  That happens on a Mac, too.
> 
>     Ryou>   Is there no way to use 256 color mode with Non-VESA
>     Ryou> compatible old driver?  I remember DJGPP or EMX supplies
>     Ryou> cool video drivers for this ET4000 series.
> 
> Executor only uses VESA-compatible drivers to use SVGA modes.  We
> don't use the old DJGPP drivers.  If you have not tried it already,
> you should try installing UniVBE and see if that gives you 256 colors
> (ftp://ftp.scitechsoft.com/uvbe51a.zip).
> 
> -Mat

Yes!!

I tried and UniVBE works!  It gives me 256 color mode nicely with
my ancient ET400W32i Board which doesn't support VESA BIOS at all...

Thanks for your help, Mat!

Yours,

Stjohn