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From: strobl@gmdzi.UUCP (Wolfgang Strobl)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Super VGA Modes for Windows
Keywords: vga windows driver
Message-ID: <2990@gmdzi.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jul 90 23:16:07 GMT
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mikew@athena.mit.edu (Michael B Williams) writes:

>I'm trying to get the generic Super VGA driver that was posted a while ago to
>work on a friend's machine.  He doesn't know the manufacturer of the graphics
>board, but he does know that it uses a Tseng Labs chip set.  The documentation
>for the board is conspicuously absent.  Could those users of Tseng Labs-based
>graphics boards find out what mode number gives 800x600x16 graphics?  A few
>manufacturers that use Tseng Labs chips are Orchid, Genoa, Sota, and STB.  If
>you have one of these boards, it would be a great help if you could look up
>the mode number.

I use a cheap super VGA card which calls itself OPTIMA 1024/A PLUS. It
is based on the Tseng chip set. It comes with 512K of memory and is
able to give a 800*600 picture with 256 colors.

I use it with on a 386/25 machine under Windows 3 in enhanced mode,
using the SV800 driver which was posted here. I use the mode number 
41 (dezimal). This fits to the bios mode number 29 (sedezimal), which
stands for 800*600*16 graphics mode, in my documentation of the 
OPTIMA card.

Wolfgang Strobl

PS: I am still waiting for a 640*480*256 (or better: 800*600*256)
driver for Windows 3 and this card. Does anybody know of such 
a driver and from where I could get it?


>Alternatively, is anyone aware of a Windows 3.0 driver specific to one of these
>boards?  Perhaps one of the above manufacturers runs a BBS from which we could
>download it.

>Thanks in advance,
>Michael B. Williams
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