Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!hp-pcd!hpcvra!everett From: everett@hpcvra.CV.HP.COM (Everett Kaser) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Sprite ToolKit for PCs available at chyde.uwasa.fi Message-ID: <31600009@hpcvra.CV.HP.COM> Date: 29 Oct 90 20:12:08 GMT References: Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA Lines: 23 jka@niksula.hut.fi (Jari Petri Karjala) writes... > > everett@hpcvra.CV.HP.COM (Everett Kaser) writes: > > After downloading the sprite toolkit, I find myself unable to run any of the > > demo programs. I assume it's because I'm not "using" the .BGI drivers, and > > All you need is to have the EGAVGA.BGI file (assuming you > have an EGA or a VGA card) in the same directory as the > program you want to run. The EGAVGA.BGI is included in the STK >-- >/* Jari Karjala ** "Mathematics is a subject in which we never know */ That's kind of what I thought, and that's what I tried. No go. The VGA card *appears* to be changing to graphics mode (that's that distinctive sight/sound/ feeling of the display changing modes, it goes black, the blinking cursor goes away, all of which makes me think that it is in graphics mode) but nothing ever appears on the display. My VGA card is from Hewlett-Packard, which uses the Paradise chip set. Oh well. Everett Kaser Hewlett-Packard Company ...hplabs!hp-pcd!everett work: (503) 750-3569 Corvallis, Oregon everett%hpcvra@hplabs.hp.com home: (503) 928-5259 Albany, Oregon