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(Smail3.1.29.1 #3) id m0tvlL4-0007q8C; Sun, 10 Mar 96 06:39 MST Received: from koguma ([203.246.179.145]) by red.hnc.co.kr (8.6.9H1/8.6.9) with SMTP id WAA30155 for <executor@ardi.com>; Sun, 10 Mar 1996 22:44:17 +0900 Message-ID: <3142DAC7.36AC@red.hnc.co.kr> Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 22:36:07 +0900 From: Ryou Seong-Joon <stjohn@hnc.co.kr> Organization: Hangul & Computer Co., Ltd X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: executor@ardi.com Subject: UniVBE works under NT! Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-executor@ardi.com Precedence: bulk Mat Hostetter wrote: > > >>>>> "Ryou" == Ryou Seong-Joon <stjohn@hnc.co.kr> writes: > > Ryou> By the way, My computer is 486-DX/2 66 MHz with 16MB of RAM, > Ryou> and I found out video card (3 years old ET4000-W32i) is not > Ryou> vesa-compatible, Cause I found out the problem is gone with > Ryou> my friends NT machine (same configuration, except video card > Ryou> is more recent ET4000-W32p or so..) It says VBE 1.2 and > Ryou> works fine. > > OK. > > Ryou> 2. Executor tries to use 16 colors when I see Alt-Shift-5 > Ryou> Panel.. 256 color mode is dimmed out. > > Did you know that Lemmings only draws black and white when there are > fewer than 256 colors available? That happens on a Mac, too. > > Ryou> Is there no way to use 256 color mode with Non-VESA > Ryou> compatible old driver? I remember DJGPP or EMX supplies > Ryou> cool video drivers for this ET4000 series. > > Executor only uses VESA-compatible drivers to use SVGA modes. We > don't use the old DJGPP drivers. If you have not tried it already, > you should try installing UniVBE and see if that gives you 256 colors > (ftp://ftp.scitechsoft.com/uvbe51a.zip). > > -Mat Yes!! I tried and UniVBE works! It gives me 256 color mode nicely with my ancient ET400W32i Board which doesn't support VESA BIOS at all... Thanks for your help, Mat! Yours, Stjohn