Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!oxy!rafetmad From: rafetmad@oxy.edu (David Ronald Giller) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Orchid ProII/TL4000 Drivers (Where?) Message-ID: <170111@tiger.oxy.edu> Date: 26 May 91 22:39:44 GMT Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041 Lines: 30 In article jmerrill@jarthur.claremont.edu (Jason Merrill) writes: >>>>>> On 25 May 91 00:04:03 GMT, artk@Congruent.COM (Arthur Kreitman) said: > >> In article , ted@gdfwc3 (Ted Barker) writes: >> |> >> |> In an earlier article, which I did not save and cannot find again, January >> |> 1991 version of drivers (Win3) for the Orchid ProII/TL4000 were mentioned. >> | >> |> 2) Is there a version that supports 800X600X256 on 512K? >> |> >> No, and there will never be one > >Strange. I wonder why I have one, then. > >It's been on cica for some time, too. tsng4311.zip is the filename, I >believe (these are the January 1991 drivers). > >Jason Merrill >jmerrill@jarthur.claremont.edu The 800x600x256 drivers require 1024K of memory. They will not work on 512K cards. The original poster wants drivers which will use the 800x600x256 mode of the 512K cards, which these drivers will not do. They use some kind of extra buffering with video memory, and do not leave enough left over for 256 colors in 800x600 mode. David Giller ----- (rafetmad@oxy.edu) or (dgiller@oxy.edu) ------------ Box 134 1600 Campus Road "Some of us wake up -- others roll over." Occidental College "It's easy to deceive a child." -- John Lydon Los Angeles, CA 90041