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From: ssircar@ecs.umass.edu (Good writers re-write -- not write!)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: ATI 256-color drivers
Message-ID: <11184.272be0b7@ecs.umass.edu>
Date: 29 Oct 90 07:56:38 GMT
References: <17118@thorin.cs.unc.edu>
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In article <17118@thorin.cs.unc.edu>, fritsch@picasso.cs.unc.edu (Dan Fritsch) writes:
> Rumor has it that 256-color drivers for ATI 
> VGAWonders are now available for anonymous ftp
> on cica.cica.indiana.edu (/pub/pc/win3/uploads).
> The file is called atiwin.zip and contains a
> 256-color driver for all VGAWonders at 800x600
> and a 256-color driver at 1024x768 for their 
> 1-Meg cards. I don't know the source of this 
> driver, but I imagine it is a beta version
> someone uploaded. I haven't had the opportunity
> to check this out yet, so don't blame me if the
> above is not true.
It's no rumor as I have a copy of it.  The only MAJOR drawback is that the
screen writes are slowed down quite a bit.  The best way to describe the change
is to first run a program with direct screen writes and then change it to write
using BIOS calls.

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