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From: pipkins@qmsseq.imagen.com (Jeff Pipkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Multisync 3D user memory
Message-ID: <91@qmsseq.imagen.com>
Date: 16 Jan 90 17:30:55 GMT
References: <1290@maytag.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: pipkins@qmsseq.UUCP (Jeff Pipkins)
Organization: QMS Inc., Mobile, Alabama
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In article <1290@maytag.waterloo.edu> dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch) writes:
>
>I have read a couple of times that the Multisync 3D is supposed to be able
>to remember settings for centering, image size, etc., and automatically
>adjust the size of an image when a program changes video modes.  Mine
>doesn't.  Is there some trick to it, or can it really only remember
>one setting?  (In particular, I'd like to be able to go from standard
>VGA to 800x600 super-VGA and not have the image slide off to the right.)

I had this problem when I was using an ATI VGA Wonder (version 2 of the
board layout).  I called Gateway since I bought it from them, and they
sent me a new board (version 4 board layout).  I had experienced the
problem when switching to 132x44 character mode and back.  The new board,
due to a bug (says ATI), is not even capable of switching to that mode
at all!  In addition, the ANSI.SYS provided with DOS (ver 4.01) cannot
handle the 132x44 mode.  When you do a dir, it works until you get down
to line 24 or 25 and then you see pretty colors blinking...

So Gateway let me trade the card for an Orchid ProDesigner+.  The 132x44
mode worked perfectly, along with several other text modes (my favorite
is 100x40, and my Brief editor likes it, too).  Also, their EANSI.SYS
driver allowed flawless use of any of the character modes in DOS.

									Can you
									read
									this on
									your
									ATI?