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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