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From: bob@quake.xnet.com (Bob Hollinger)
Subject: Re: Have you experienced "huge pixels" in 256 color mode?
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Date: Tue, 22 Nov 1994 00:04:16 -0600 (CST)
In-Reply-To: <9411202054.AA13358@iclone> from "Mathew J. Hostetter" at Nov 20, 94 01:54:51 pm
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> A few people have complained that Executor/DOS in 256 color mode gives
> them a low resolution screen with huge pixels. We haven't seen that
> over here, but I think I know what's happening. If you don't have a
> VESA-compatible Super VGA driver (or you don't have a Super VGA card
> at all), Executor will use the old-style VGA 320x200 256 color mode
> because that's the biggest 8-bit resolution available without SVGA
> graphics modes.
>
on a related note, many SVGA cards that are not VESA compliant have TSR's that
can be loaded to make them VESA compliant. I know the Viper PCI is this way
and i'm pretty sure i've seen this elsewhere. anyone who's having this problem
might check w/ their vendor [or their manual?] to see if such a beast is
available...
bob
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