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- 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
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