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From: perkins@bnrmtv.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MS CodeView
Message-ID: <1594@bnrmtv.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 8-Apr-87 19:23:05 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  8 19:23:05 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 11-Apr-87 14:37:12 EST
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Organization: BNR Inc., Mountain View, California
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> I am using MS 4.0 and CodeView on an NCR PC-8 (AT Compatable) with a 
> Video-7 Vega EGA card. My problem is that whenever I start CodeView it
> turns the screen pink and green. Does anyone know how I can make it
> just come up in normal colors? The manual was no help at all.
> -- 
> Michael Lodman  {sdcsvax,cbatt,dcdwest,nosc.ARPA,ihnp4}!ncr-sd!lodman

CodeView doesn't work with most EGA-type cards, except in 43-line
mode.  MicroSoft was coding around some "undocumented features"
(read bugs) on IBM's EGA, and inadvertently broke it on non-IBM
cards.  Anyway, they have a free patch to CodeView that fixes this.
You can call their 800- number to find out how to get the patch.

In general, MicroSoft has a bad reputation for only testing their
code on IBM hardware.  As another example, Windows attempts to
detect the presence of an EGA card by looking for the string "IBM"
in a fixed location in the EGA BIOS.  (And this is in spite of the
fact that they developed Windows using Tandy 2000s!)
-- 
{hplabs,amdahl,3comvax}!bnrmtv!perkins        --Henry Perkins

It is better never to have been born.  But who among us has such luck?
One in a million, perhaps.