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From: sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Enhanced graphics adapter woes
Message-ID: <1446@bbncca.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 31-May-85 12:59:03 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 31 12:59:03 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 1-Jun-85 02:32:05 EDT
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I have a new AT with the EGA (no other display adapter), and have been
quite disturbed by the lack of compatibility with a lot of existing
software, most notably Borland's stuff: Sidekick and Turbo Pascal--who
knows what else I'll come across.

When using a monochrome monitor, Turbo works fine, but Sidekick causes
the screen to be twisted into an unrecognizable, ominous-looking (monitor
destroying? I haven't let it run long enough) pattern.  When run with
a vanilla IRGB monitor, neither program works--Turbo clears the screen
and does not produce any more output, and Sidekick's menu box is pushed
far to the right, half-way off the screen, looking as if the vertical
hold was maladjusted.

Are there any other EGA owners out there?  Am I doing something wrong?
Is this an AT problem or an EGA problem or some combination?  Are there
any patches to these or other programs that fix the problem?
-- 
/Steve Dyer
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