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From: jackson@acf4.NYU.EDU (Robert Max Jackson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith
Subject: Re: Zenith EGA Card, what is it?
Message-ID: <23870004@acf4.NYU.EDU>
Date: 3 Feb 90 21:20:00 GMT
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michael regoli; mr@cica.indiana.edu  asks if an upgraded bios will
allow the Zenith 449 card to work as a VGA with WordPerfect.
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No.  This really is an EGA card that will send its signals properly
either to a TTL monitor or an analog ("VGA") monitor.  It does not
have VGA graphics capacity and never will.  With WP 5.0 you can use
the graphics driver named "EEGA MODE 12H 640X480 16 color" (available
separately from the original set of drivers) which is a standard EGA
driver with the extended graphics mode 12 added.  I have not checked
to see how you chose this with WP 5.1.

The SETVID command gives you direct software choice of video modes.
But only those that it tells you, i.e. EGA, CGA, hercules.  

Bitch to Zenith, but don't expect much.