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Re: Old MS-DOS shell for Ldraw wanted (Ldl)
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lugnet.cad
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Date:
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Sun, 4 Aug 2002 22:05:00 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Don Heyse writes:
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> 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
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> http:\\ldglite.sourceforge.net
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> 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.
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> http://www.elys.com/software/vesa/
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> 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.
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:
Resolution not supported
With friendly greetings, M. Moolhuysen.
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| (...) Ah, you should also try a google web search and/or a google newsgroup search. Works pretty good for me :^) (...) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 3-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)
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