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Subject: Re: ATI EGA Wonder Card
Message-ID: <1987Sep11.102328.2884@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Date: Fri, 11-Sep-87 10:23:28 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 11 10:23:28 1987
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Reply-To: tj@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Terry Jones)
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HUH?
Previous article stated that 1) ATI is slot sensitive?
2) MSWord doesn't work in EGA mode
3) Some programs are slow
4) EGA on a composite mono looks ugly
I have to agree with number 4. Composite looks ugly in any mode. (I know I have
one...)
Number 1 sounds like you have failed to disable the on board video adapter
and thus are getting bus contentions etc. THERE IS NO WAY IT SHOULD BE SLOT
SENSITIVE. A friend of mine had 2 com1 ports and this resulted in the same type
of apparent behaviour.

Number 2 sounds like the way that MS Word checks adapters. I think they look
for a CGA first, then the others. The ATI will look like a CGA and the software
will use it as a CGA and look ugly. IF YOU READ THE DOCUMENTATION for WORD you
would know about the switches /c /h /m etc. Try /m with an EGA with a TTL mono
monitor. (/c is character mode instead of graphics mode, /h and /m give high
res modes, there are others I can't remember, like 43 line mode etc...)
(Word 4.0 out soon lets you dynamically switch modes)

3) The ATI card is slow, but I suspect some of this may be due to bus
contention and thinking its a CGA in your case.