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From: jxh@cup.portal.com (Jim - Hickstein)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Is there an 8514A driver for Win386?
Message-ID: <16736@cup.portal.com>
Date: 6 Apr 89 02:10:00 GMT
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I have an IBM PS/2 Model 80 with an 8514A display adapter and 8514 display;
I wish to use Windows/386 under Micrografx Designer, rather than the
runtime Windows that ships with Designer.  Designer comes with an 8514A
driver which has problems (system font is just blobs, frame window is
covered with a fine grid of white dots (not the entire screen, interestingly,
just the frame window)), but my retail Win/386 kit from MS does not have
even that.  Online doesn't seem to offer any help: the latest thing I found
in the Knowledgebase that refers to this is a note from March saying that
an 8514A driver was "under consideration for a future release."  So how come
Micrografx managed to beg/buy/steal/write one?  Did they get it from MS since
my Win/386 kit was built?  If so, why is it not available from Online?  If
there is such a driver, does it work any better than the one I already have?
Does it require 8 planes (i.e. the optional memory), or will it work with 4?
(It had better.)  Is Microsoft going to try to screw me out of another hundred
bucks for this (forget it!)?

Anyone out there using what I'm talking about?  Where did you get it?

Please email replies: I'll post a summary.

-Jim Hickstein
jxh@cup.portal.com
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