Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Path: utzoo!utgpu!tj
From: tj@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Terry Jones)
Subject: Re: IBM's XGA and Windows
Message-ID: <1991Jan24.132327.8830@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Organization: UTCS Public Access
References: <859@nih-csl.nih.gov>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 91 13:23:27 GMT

AN update to a posting I made about the XGA adapter.

I said that it wasn't VGA compatible enough for WordPerfect, what I meant
was it wasn't 8514 compatible enough. There may have been some code
provided to make it more 8514 compatible but I didn't have time to try
before the board went away. It DID work fin as VGA with WP 5.1

In WIndows, when you set lo rez mode, it says you can get 256 colours at
640x480. This is only true if you also add the paramater to win.ini
[Display_Adapter]
ColorPreferred=Y
Then it comes up using the larger sized fonts looking like a 256 colour
VGA. There were memory upgrade slots on this thing that were empty so there
are probably high rez many colour modes possible.

tj
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