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- Instructions for VGATEST:
-
- VGATEST is a program sent with DiscPassage to test video display
- capabilities. It can also be used as a file viewer.
-
- To view a file with VGATEST, give the command
-
- vgatest [-d<drive>] [-v<card>] [-i<image>]
-
- where the items in brackets override the default values as follows:
- -d specify drive letter (e.g. -dh)
- -v specify VGA card chipset (e.g. -vstdvga)
- -vall list VGA chipset options
- -vmem specify VGA card memory (e.g. -vmem=256k)
- -i specify image to display (e.g. -i\publish.scf)
- -? display usage message
-
- Defaults for these values are:
- <drive> Auto-sensed CD-ROM drive
- <card> Auto-detected VGA card chipset and memory
- <image> PUBLISH.SCF image in root directory of CD-ROM drive
-
- Allowed values of <card> for -v<card> usage are:
- tseng Tseng Labs ET3000 chipset
- tseng4 Tseng Labs ET4000 chipset
- paradise Paradise (Western Digital)
- video7 Video 7
- trident Trident TVGA
- everex Everex
- ati ATI (ViewPerfect, etc.)
- chipstech Chips & Technologies 451-452
- aheada Ahead A
- aheadb Ahead B
- genoa Genoa 6400
- zymos Zymos
- oak Oak OTI-067
- tecmar Tecmar
- stdvga Standard VGA - 360 x 480 x 256 colors
- mode13 Standard VGA - 320 x 200 x 256 colors
-
- When finished viewing the file, press the <ESCAPE> key.
- To interrupt the display of a file, press the <ESCAPE>, and press the
- <ESCAPE> key again to exit the program.
-
- Please note that specifying an image file with the -i option over-rides
- the drive detection, and uses instead the path from the current working
- directory.
-
-
- ALLOWABLE IMAGE TYPES:
-
- VGATEST can be used to view SCF images (the 640 x 480 x 256 color file
- format used by RIX Softworks, Inc.). SCF images will default to mode 13X
- (360 x 400 x 256 colors) on a Standard VGA display, but will display in
- mode 101 (640 x 480 x 256 colors) on a Super VGA display. Super VGA
- display is slightly faster.
-
-
- EXAMPLES:
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- To view the file IMAGE1.SCF, give the command
-
- vgatest -iimage.scf
-
- To view the same file in standard VGA, give the command
-
- vgatest -iimage.scf -vstdvga
-
- To view the PUBLISH.SCF file in the root directory of drive D:, use the
- command
-
- vgatest -dd
-
- or the command
-
- vgatest -id:\publish.scf
-
-
-
- VGATEST Version 1.10c 21-December-1990
- Copyright 1989, 1990 by CMC ReSearch, Inc.
-