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Re: Old MS-DOS shell for Ldraw wanted (Ldl)
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Date: 
Sat, 3 Aug 2002 00:44:50 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Manfred Moolhuysen writes:
I've done a deep search on Lugnet before I asked, but I could not find the
program on my own.

Ah, you should also try a google web search and/or a google
newsgroup search.  Works pretty good for me :^)

Hey, what sort of graphics card do you have on the DOS pc?  If it
has a 16bpp VESA mode you might be able to use the DOS version of
ldglite.  I'm not sure why you'd want to do that unless you like
to spin the model with the mouse, or maybe need MPD support.

It is a Qvision 2000 video card, (from Compaq, I believe).

Apparently that's a 2MB OEM version of the Matrox MGA card.  Any chance
you could spend a few minutes and see if the DOS version of ldglite
runs on it?  Don't bother if it's too much work, I'm just curious.
The DOS ldglite executable is about an 800K download and expands into
a 2MB executable (someday I'll figure out how to make it smaller).
You can get it and the DOS extender you'll probably need to run it at

  http:\\ldglite.sourceforge.net

You might also need a VESA driver.  This page claims to have one for
the Qvision 2000.  Looks like it's the same as the MGA driver.

  http://www.elys.com/software/vesa/

But like I said, don't bother if it's too much work.  Someday when
I'm really bored I'll dig up some old hardware and test it more
myself.

Don



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In lugnet.cad, Don Heyse writes: [snip] (...) Here is the provisional outcome of this experiment, on startup it showed te following error message: visual = 397954 context = 39b9d4 set_color_depth = 16 screen = 0 Error setting graphics mode: (...) (22 years ago, 4-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)

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(...) name. I've installed it and it works just as I remembered. Good old Tore Eriksson! (I believe that he's the author) Thank you Tore Eriksson and Tim Courtney, shouldn't a link to this tool be included on the DOS Users page of the download (...) (22 years ago, 2-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)

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