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From: arcarese@andromeda.rutgers.edu.rutgers.edu (John C Arcarese)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Deluxe Pain II Blues
Summary: It bombs on TecMar board.
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Date: 22 Aug 88 18:27:11 GMT
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Problem with DPaint_II, using TecMar graphics board.  For some reason, when I
set it for VGA, the display craps out.  I've called both TecMar, and
EA, but got the runaround from both companies. 	When I talked to EA, they said
that the reason I had the problem when running the program in VGA mode,
(the screen goes blank and stays that way), is because DPaint_II bypasses the
bios, which is copied to the vga board, and directly accesses the registers on
the VGA board.
	Tecmar said that EA was 'sleezy' for doing that, because when they
bypass the system bios on the board, they are assuming a certain type of
monitor frequency, namely ibm ps/2 analog.  If, according to the tecmar
guy, they simply accessed the bios on the board, this would not only select
the right frequency, but would be less work than directly accessing the
registers on the board.  Can anyone out there offer an easy (or not so easy)
way to correct this, so that I can run DPaint_II on the TecMar VGA board.

Please respond via email.

Thanks in advance,
		John A.