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- VGA Card Analyzer
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- The VGACARD program will attempt to work out what type of display
- hardware is in your system, such that it can advise you about
- selecting a suitable driver for Alchemy Mindworks' software. It's
- applicable to Graphic Workshop for DOS, Image Gallery and Desktop
- Paint 256.
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- Note that while VGACARD is usually right, the considerable
- variety of display card types could manage to confuse it. As
- such, its results should be filtered through common sense.
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- To use VGACARD, type:
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- VGACARD
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- at the DOS prompt. It will tell you whether it finds:
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- - A standard VGA BIOS... this should be present in all VGA cards.
- - A VESA BIOS, and the modes thereof.
- - A super VGA card of a type supported by Alchemy Mindworks'
- software.
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- It may advise you about the suitability of your display hardware
- for specific applications.
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- If VGACARD indicates that your card has VESA capabilities, the
- VESA drivers in Alchemy Mindworks' applications should work, even
- if your card type is unrecognized.
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- If your card does not support VESA and no driver is available for
- it in its native mode, you can probably use a TSR VESA
- interpreter to temporarily provide it with VESA calls. A
- collection of such programs is available by calling the Alchemy
- Mindworks bulletin board at (416) 729-4609. (The area code for
- Alchemy Mindworks' non-800 numbers will change from 416 to 905
- after October 4, 1993.)
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- NOTE: If no hardware-specific driver is available for your card
- you can still use it in the standard VGA modes with Graphic
- Workshop and Image Gallery. You cannot use it with Desktop Paint
- 256.
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- There are a number of drivers provided with Graphic Workshop and
- Image Gallery which support cards that VGACARD will not detect,
- primarily drivers written by third parties. If VGACARD says
- there's no driver for your system, look at the section of GWS.DOC
- or GAL.DOC, or at the super VGA driver page of their respective
- installers, to see if your card is supported.
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- LEGAL DOGMA
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- VGACARD is copyright (c) 1992 Alchemy Mindworks Inc.
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- Neither the author nor Alchemy Mindworks Inc. assumes
- responsibility for any damage or loss caused by the use of these
- programs, however it comes down. If you can think of a way a
- picture program can cause you damage or loss you've a sneakier
- mind than mine.
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- All the registered trademarks used herein are registered to
- whoever it is that owns them. This notification is given in lieu
- of any specific list of trademarks and their owners, which would
- not be as inclusive and would probably take a lot longer to type.
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- Graphic Workshop, Desktop Paint and Image Gallery, are trademarks
- of Alchemy Mindworks Inc.
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- That's it...
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