Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!wuarchive!dogie.macc.wisc.edu!vms.macc.wisc.edu From: pschwart@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Paul Schwartz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: vga+hercules Message-ID: <4702@dogie.macc.wisc.edu> Date: 8 Nov 90 14:45:21 GMT Sender: news@dogie.macc.wisc.edu Distribution: usa Organization: University of Wisconsin Academic Computing Center Lines: 31 In article , ghenniga@nmsu.edu (Gary Hennigan) writes... >In an article jsd@arcadien.rice.edu (Shawn Joel Dube), writes: >>What's the point in using the hercules??? A VGA card, in a text >>mode, offers the same resolution as does hercules. > >Don't know 'bout anyone else but having two monitors would be great >for writing and especially debugging graphics programs. The debugger >could be running on the HGC while the graphics are being displayed on >the VGA! I think some people are fortunate enough to have such >configurations, unfortunately I'm not one of them! > I have such a configuration. I bougth the hercules with the intent of debugging Turbo Pascal and Turbo C++ code, but I'm having a very annoying problem. When I load the debugger to work from the herc screen, I don't get a mouse pointer, and anything that I move the mouse over turns to bold, blinking text. If I boot with the hercules screen as the primary screen (something the VGA Wonder lets you do), I get a similar effect. Has anyone had experience with this kind of problem? I'm using a Microsoft Mouse , but I'm not sure which version of the drier I'm using. - Z - +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | PauL M SchwartZ | | | PSCHWART@vms3.macc.wisc.edu | Your message here... | | PSCHWART@wiscmacc.BitNet | only 5$ per post | | (608)255-5702 | | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+