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From: kathy@bakerst.UUCP (Kathy Vincent)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: 6300 graphics and EGA cards
Keywords: 6300, EGA, graphics, equivalents
Message-ID: <1037@bakerst.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jan 88 18:13:39 GMT
Organization: AT&T, Winston-Salem, NC
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Several people in my department have been working lately with a
CBT (computer-based-training) program called "Summit."  Summit was
designed to work on IBM PC and PC-compatible machines (I'm being
awfully generic here - that may include XT and AT), and we've been
using it on 6300s. 

When designing training screens with the original version of Summit,
we could work in 3 modes:

    1.	Text, using 16 colours and the ASCII character
	set plus an extended (?) character set of special
	characters to a total of 256 characters.

    2.	High-resolution graphics, using *2* colours only
	(black and one other colour of choice) and pixel-graphics.

    3.	Low-resolution graphics, using *4* colours only
	(black and EITHER red/green/yellow OR pink/blue/white)
	and pixel-graphics.

Recently, they came out with a new version that's supposed to
enable users to get all 16 colours in both graphics modes as well
as in text mode - provided the machine being used is equipped with
an EGA card.  We have the new software, but we haven't yet been able
to make use of the new capabilities because we don't have EGA cards.
There may be a way, but we haven't figured it out yet.

What we'd like to do is figure out how to tap into the 16 colours
with the equipment we have *without* having to invest in the EGA cards.
I realize that may be a pipe dream, but, heck.

I seem to remember from 'way back that the 6300 as it comes off
the shelf is already equipped with a fancy graphics capabilities,
that it's supposed to be the equivalent of a PC or XT with some
graphics card.  What card is that?  Is it an EGA card?  Anyone know?
If the 6300 is the equivalent of a PC/XT with an EGA card, does
anyone have any idea what kinds of things might be involved in
modifying the CBT package to make it work with our equipment?
OR what's involved in getting our EGA-equivalent to act like an EGA?
Is it possible?  Probable?  If the 6300 card is not an EGA equivalent,
what *is* it?

Thanks.

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