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From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Z-Soft Publishers Paintbrush for Windows upgrade info
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Date: 18 Dec 90 19:20:38 GMT
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In article <6304@hsv3.UUCP> jls@hsv3.UUCP (James Seidman) writes:
>In article <marshall.661471962@wind55> marshall@wind55.seri.gov (Marshall L. Buhl) writes:
>>Yes they are.  I have a Video 7 VRAM VGA (which I think is quite nice).
>>There is just one little biddy problem with it.  When you start a DOS
>>app from Win3, you cannot change video modes. 

Mine is a Dell VGA-16, which as far as I can tell is a Video 7 Fastwrite.

>
>As I've said before, 
REALLY?  Where??


>you can get around this by using the V7VGA utility
>provided with the card.  Type "V7VGA pure:off" and you'll be able to use
>all the extended modes. 
On mine it is just "VGA pure:off".

Works perfectly. Thanks!!!

This makes Windows 3.0 actually USEABLE!!!!


Doug MCDonald