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From: H.C.Davis@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Hugh Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Amstrad 2086 Screen Drivers Anyone?
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Date: 1 Oct 90 19:47:36 GMT
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The Amstrad 2000 series built in VGA is supposed to be 100% VGA
compatible (based on Paradise board I am told?).  However Windows seems
convinced that the screen is *mono*!  Attempts to fool it by forcing it
to accept the VGA colour driver cause it to crash.  

Does anyone know of a VGA driver that works in colour on this machine?

One idea was to use the VGA driver  that Amstrad supplied with the
Windows 2 distribution disks, but it seems that they "built it in" in
some way, so there is no separately identifiable VGA.DRV on the disks
as far as I can see.
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