Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!a752
From: a752@mindlink.UUCP (Bruce Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Hi-res. Windows/386 w/ ATI VGA card
Message-ID: <1456@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 10 Apr 90 11:24:19 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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     The ATI VGA Wonder card will definitely give 1024 x 768.  I am using this
now on a Seiko monitor, both with WINDOWS 386 and with the run time package
that comes with WORD for WINDOWS.  Read the instructions very carefully about
how to install WINDOWS.  A special driver has to be built which seems to
combine information both from your WINDOWS release disk, and from the ATI disk.
The procedure is complicated and takes a couple of peculiar floppy disk swaps
before the driver is created.  Try to install WINDOWS from scratch following
the ATI procedures exactly.
     The NEC 3D should give 1024 x 768.  As a quick test not involving the
WINDOWS package, there is software with the card which will check out the
ability of the monitor to display various resolutions.  The drivers which are
created for the high resolution WINDOWS 386 also work for the run-time WINDOWS
package for WINWORD.  WINWORD in 1024 x 768 is glorious - you get to see about
10 inches of page width, although the characters are smaller.  I think that
what is done is to draw the characters with the same number of pixels, but just
increase the space in which they can be drawn.
     For further help, you may E-mail me.

Bruce Dunn  a753@mindlink.UUCP