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- From: ee90dhg@brunel.ac.uk (Dominic H Goode)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Rombo Media Pro Plus
- Message-ID: <C1KFv3.HK7@brunel.ac.uk>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 13:23:26 GMT
- Organization: Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
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- A friend of mine recently bought a Cardex hi-colour 1Mb graphics card,
- using the Tseng ET-4000 chipset.
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- Having access to this 24 bit colour, he then bought a video digitising card -
- the Rombo Media-Pro Plus.
-
- Unfortunatly, after installing the card and the Windows 3.1 software, he found
- that the card only worked in standard 16 and 256 colour modes. Furthermore,
- he could no longer use windows AT ALL in the high colour modes, as most of the
- colours become black or white.
-
- Whilst the digitiser does not need a hi-colour mode, (it chroma-keys its output
- into the pc's VGA video signals), it is rather a waste of a hi colour card!
-
- Also, the software supplied with the digitiser refuses to save 256 colour BMP
- files. It reports a sofware failure, followed by a windows AE message, which
- closes down the program.
-
- The software only works at all in the 386 enhanced mode - otherwise the
- sotware is completely unable to access the card's on board ram.
-
- 24bit bmp files are (Slightly) more sucessful, but only a very small number
- of windows and DOS programs will load them in correctly (if at all). So much
- for a standard file format!
-
- Does anyone know how to solve (or improve) either of the above problems?
-
- Thanks.
- Dominic Goode (ee90dhg@brunel.ac.uk)
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