Path: utzoo!censor!becker!douglee
From: douglee@becker.UUCP (Doug Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 2088 bridge card
Message-ID: <655@becker.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jul 89 06:56:26 GMT
References: <4616@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: douglee@becker.UUCP (Doug Lee)
Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario
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In article <4616@crash.cts.com> news@crash.cts.com (Usenet News) writes:
>?
>   I just got a used BridgeCard 2088, actually a PC Emulator(whatever that is,
>I assume a BridgeCard).  Well anyhow, I been having problems with the little
>bugger, I can't get it to do PC Color! Mono Works Great! But Color Well it
>sits there with a blinking cursor, I have no manual, so I dunno anything about

What you need is an MS-DOS manual. The problem is that the software is 
configured to talk to a monochrome IBM graphics card. This can be switched
with the mode command. Type into either MS-DOS window the following:
       MODE CO80 or MODE CO40 and this will cause the bridge card to output
       to the colour window in 80 or 40 column mode respectively.

To switch back to mono,just type MODE MONO in either window. Also note there 
is a jumper on the board which sets the default bootup mode of the card
to either mono or colour. You need to get the bridgecard manual to find this.
Sorry I don't have one here.

>it.  I would also like to know how to use a video card such as EGA with the
>BridgeCard, I know it's possible but I dunno how to do it.  Is there any

>possible way to access the use df0: and df1: as PC drives, like with the
>tranformer
NO.
All you can do is plug an external drive (either 3.5 or 5.25") into the 23 pin
connector on the back of the bridgecard.

>   Help! I have no manual or software(well I just got a copy of the software).
							 ^^^^
							 TSK TSK TSK
>                                                               -Eric
>
				<<<Doug>>>
				douglee@becker