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From: a752@mindlink.UUCP (Bruce Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: ATI Announces Support for Windows 3
Message-ID: <2306@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jun 90 23:51:26 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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> phil@pepsi.amd.com writes:
> 
> How about fonts? Orchid includes fonts with the Prodesigner II
> Win 3 drivers. Drivers without fonts do not comprise a complete
> support offering in my opinion.
> 


     Windows 3.0 is shipped with a set of sceen fonts which are very suitable
for use with the 800x600 and 1024x768 high resolution modes.  These fonts are
listed as "8514" or "8514/a" fonts, and are designed for the IBM 8514/a card
and monitor which give 1024x768 resolution.  The instructions from ATI about
installing the drivers tell you to copy the drivers into the appropriate
position on your hard drive, and then to modify the system.ini file to use the
new drivers.  However, they don't tell you how to install the 8514/a fonts.
Unfortunately, the Windows 3.0 setup program installs fonts and drivers as a
package, so if you specify an 8514/a display, you get both the fonts and
drivers installed together in the appropriate lines of the system.ini file.
After a bit of fiddling, I worked out the following method of getting the
8514/a fonts with the ATI high resolution drivers.  If there is an easier way
or something that I have missed, please post it.

1) Run the Windows Setup program from DOS.  Lie to it and tell it that you have
an 8514/a display.  It will modify the system.ini file so that the 8514/a fonts
and drivers are installed.

2) Do *not* try to run Windows - needless to say, the 8514/a drivers do nothing
when you have a Super VGA card in your machine.

3) Use a text editor to change the system.ini file so that the correct drivers
are called up (see the ATI instructions).

4) Run Windows and enjoy!  With WINWORD and the 1024 x 768 display, you can see
over 10 inches of paper in a right-left direction.

     The 8514/a fonts are designed for a 1024x768 display, but also work fine
for an 800x600 display.  I have just installed the ATI 1024 x 768 driver, and
have had absolutely no trouble.  It is a better driver than that which is
available for Windows 2.  Screen re-draws are slower than in the standard VGA
mode, but probably only in proportion to the number of pixels which have to be
redrawn.  Scrolling in WINWORD is good: a fraction of a second per line.
--
Bruce Dunn   Vancouver, Canada    a752@mindlink.UUCP