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From: dgil@pa.reuter.COM (Dave Gillett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Question on ATI VGA Wonder-1024
Keywords: ATI, Wonder-1024 on 8-bit XT
Message-ID: <346@saxony.pa.reuter.COM>
Date: 21 Aug 90 20:17:12 GMT
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In <8960@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> kyung@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Kyung Lee) writes:
>Friend of mine has ATI VGA Wonder with 512K and the optional BUS mouse.
>VGA card with BIOS ver. 3M - 1.05.  No switches or jumpers on this card!

>Anyway, is it possible to hookup this VGA card using the same monitor
>on a 8 bit XT machine?  Is there any software device driver that is 
>needed if this is possible?  And if it is possible, what would be the 
>maximum res?  I know there are 16 bit VGA card that can be used on
>8 bit systems.  I just don't know if this is one of 'em.

I have that card in my machine.  It came with a disk of useful software,
including a program called VCONFIG which allows you to set all of the things
that might normally be handled by DIP switches.  One of these is the 8/16-bit
mode selection.

Since it will be hard to see VCONFIG's menus if it's not set up correctly,
I would try switching it to 8-bit mode while it's still installed in the
16-bit machine; THEN move it to the 8-bit machine.  (I won't speculate on
why anyone would actually want to do this....)
                                                 Dave