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Re: Old MS-DOS shell for Ldraw wanted (Ldl)
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.cad
Date: 
Sun, 4 Aug 2002 22:05:00 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Don Heyse writes:
[snip]
> 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.

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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  Re: Old MS-DOS shell for Ldraw wanted (Ldl)
 
(...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 3-Aug-02, to lugnet.cad)

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