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From: jkg@gitpyr.gatech.EDU (Jim Greenlee)
Newsgroups: net.micro.att
Subject: Re: Using ATT hires mono graphics with programs like MicroSoft Word
Message-ID: <2427@gitpyr.gatech.EDU>
Date: Sun, 19-Oct-86 02:02:18 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct 19 02:02:18 1986
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In article <423@husc6.HARVARD.EDU> beck@husc4.UUCP ( beck) writes:
>Line eater take this
>
>Does anyone have a driver to make programs like MicroSoft Word take advantage
>of the 6300's build in hires monochrome graphics. I understand that ATT can
>put out 600x400 resolution so one ought to be able to do almost as well
>with an ATT as with a Hercules card. Is this so?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Nathaniel Beck, Dept. of Govt., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
>ARPAnet: beck@husc4.harvard

A salesman that I talked to when I bought my 6300 (appr. one month
ago) told me that using hi-res graphics with a 6300 was possible,
but that a special board was required to completely emulate an
EGA board. I suspect that the 6300 creates the illusion of 640x400
resolution by doubling the raster lines from the CGA 640x200 mode.
Since the monitor (I assume you have an AT&T monitor) obviously is
able to display this resolution, I suspect that a hardware mod is
required to get the 16 color palette and higher *true* resolution
of an EGA. If this is the case, then a software driver will not do
the trick. Anybody out there know for sure?.......

                                       Jim Greenlee
-- 
The Shadow
Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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