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- Dear User,
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- Print VPIC.TXT using 17 chars/inch and 8 lines/inch to get a handy one page
- quick reference guide for VPIC. See VPIC.DOC revision history for what's
- new. VPIC.DOC and CONFIG.DOC are already formatted to produce nice documents
- when printed at the default printer settings of 10 chars/in and 6 lines/in.
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- VPIC will now work with all cards that return VESA information correctly,
- and does not have to be configured; generally, if the top line in the menu
- says VESA, VPIC will work OK. However, if your SuperVGA card does not
- support VESA (older cards) or returns wrong VESA info (older Orchid F1280,
- Diamond Stealth, etc) then VPIC must be configured for your VGA board to
- utilize all the extended modes the board is capable of doing. In addition,
- if your card returns wrong VESA info, you will have to use the /v option to
- tell VPIC to ignore the VESA info. To help you to configure VPIC properly,
- the WHICHVGA and CONFIG programs were created. The archived file VESADR.ZIP
- contains an assortment of VESA TSR (Terminate and Stay Resident) drivers for
- many of the popular video card. Be sure to read the READ.ME file contained
- in the archive.
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- IMPORTANT: If you have an ATI card (and possibly some others) certain modes,
- such as 800x600, are disabled unless you select the right monitor in the ATI
- INSTALL or SETUP program. You may have to do a custom monitor configuration
- to enable these modes. The card just refuses to acknowledge these modes with
- the wrong monitor selected.
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- The CONFIG program allows you to configure VPIC from a menu. Just make sure
- VPIC.EXE, CVPIC.EXE, CONFIG.EXE, and all the configuration files (.cfg ext-
- ension) are in the current directory. Then run CONFIG and you will get a
- menu (similar to the VPIC menu) of all the configuration files. The menu
- also lists the contents of the currently highlighted file. You can move thru
- the list of files using the cursor keys, or by pressing a letter key jump to
- the next filename starting with that letter (or number). Just look for a
- file which matches the parameters for your board, and press ENTER to config-
- ure VPIC using that configuration file. ESCape ends the CONFIG program with-
- out configuring VPIC. If none of the supplied files match your board, copy
- the closest one to a new filename (with extension .cfg) and use a text
- editor to modify it to your boards requirements. Don't use a word processor
- (unless it can produce straight ASCII text) since these usually put control
- codes into the document which will confuse CONFIG and CVPIC. See CONFIG.DOC
- for a list of supported VGA chips and typical boards on which they are used.
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- The WHICHVGA program will try to identify your VGA chip and the amount of
- display memory you have. It isn't foolproof, but works most of the time.
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- See CONFIG.DOC for a comprehensive explanation of the configuration process
- and .cfg file format. See VPIC.DOC for all the other features of VPIC.
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- The WAIT program is meant for batch file use with VPIC /r, and waits a
- specified number of seconds or until a key is pressed between images. For
- example, a batch file might be:
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- vpic /r file1
- wait 10
- vpic /r file2
- etc.
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- Enjoy,
- Bob Montgomery
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