Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!agate!shelby!portia.stanford.edu!gyugyi From: gyugyi@portia.Stanford.EDU (Paul Gyugyi) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Video-7 Driver Question Message-ID: <1990Jul12.222404.1553@portia.Stanford.EDU> Date: 12 Jul 90 22:24:04 GMT References: <9280006@hpavla.AVO.HP.COM> Organization: AIR, Stanford University Lines: 33 In article <9280006@hpavla.AVO.HP.COM> pfeifer@hpavla.AVO.HP.COM (Mark Pfeifer) writes: >What resolutions does the Video-7 (w/512K) driver shipped with Windows 3 >support? I'm considering getting a Video-7 1024i card w/512K, but my >monitor can only support 800x600. Will this work? > I have a 1024i w/512K and use the 800x600 res driver from Video-7 on my Multisync II, and an pleased with the results. HOwever, I would advise you to look for a video board that will do 800x600 in 256 colors. The 1024i is limited to 16, although other Vid-7 boards will do 800x600x256 with only 512K. As for the 640x480x256 color driver that comes with windows for the Vid-7 boards, I have been unable to get any program other than the desktop to load in a 256 color bitmap and display it in more than the 20 default colors windows puts in the pallette. Even Paintbrush, which will load and display a 256 color file, won't let me draw with more than the 20 default colors. I have this nice 256 color fractal gif, and can only paint with 20 colors? Even when I choose to create a custom color, it just gives me a 16 color dithered brush. Of course I realize that it's probably deliberately crippled, and I realize that although most companies have maintenance versions of their product to work with 3.0 noone has figured out the palette manager yet. > >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Mark Pfeifer pfeifer@hpavla.hp.com > Hewlett-Packard Avondale Division > Avondale, PA #include > ______________________________________ #define OPINIONS mine > Paul Gyugyi gyugyi@portia.stanford.edu