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From: mvolo@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Michael R. Volow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Deluxe Pain II Blues
Summary: Electronic Arts rep for incompatibilities
Message-ID: <5632@ecsvax.uncecs.edu>
Date: 23 Aug 88 03:17:37 GMT
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In article <756@galaxy>, arcarese@andromeda.rutgers.edu.rutgers.edu (John C Arcarese) writes:
> 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

Have not used this Electronic Arts Program, but others I have used
with CGA are frequently incompatible with my Tall Tree Systems
memory card.  I have heard other reports of similar loose ends in
EA programs, sometimes related to their massive efforts to main-
tain copy protection.


Michael R. Volow                   919 286 0411, page beeper #550
Dept. of Psychiatry                mvolo@ecsvax.UUCP
Durham Vet Admin Medical Center
Durham, N.C. 27705