ojs@fortune.UUCP (Oliver Sharp) (07/13/84)
[] This may be of general interest, but I'm actually responding to a mail message I got from the dim and hazy world of ARPA. I can't seem to get mail working, so ...... The Hercules card comes with a basic patch for DOS 1.1 basic and DOS 2.0 basic. If you try the latter with DOS 2.1 basic, IT WON'T WORK!! You can, however, use the DOS 2.0 basic with DOS 2.1 and the Hercules patch. This works fine. I was stumped by this problem for a while - the system I was using had been updated to DOS 2.1 w/out my knowledge. Rumor has it that Hercules has fixed this, but a recently acquired board didn't have the new software. The Hercules runs fine, but the board causes a noticable flicker during scrolling. It isn't too bad, but it's not as good as the stock IBM. Sigh. The AST board is supposed to fix that and I'm waiting to here from anyone who might have played with it (c.f. earlier posting). Oliver Sharp ........!fortune!ojs