bk19#@andrew.cmu.edu (Bradley D. Keister) (03/19/87)
ReSent-From: postman#@andrew.cmu.edu ReSent-To: nntp-xmit#@andrew.cmu.edu Return-path: <bk19#@andrew.cmu.edu> To: outnews#ext.nn.comp.lang.pascal@andrew.cmu.edu CC: bk19#@andrew.cmu.edu (Bradley D. Keister) I have a Hercules compatible display, and have used SIMCGA successfully with a number of programs which expect a CGA card. In fact, the only instance in which this has failed has been with the graphics package which comes with Turbo Pascal v3.0 [I realize that the Graphix ToolBox has Hercules support, and I do own it, but the TurtleGraphics of Turbo v3.0 only appears there, and there has been at least one instance where I only had access to a .COM file of a graphics program written for a CGA with v3.0]. I've checked with Borland about this twice, but with little success. First, they suggested that SIMCGA fails because it can't handle programs which write directly to video memory (this is false). After that, they simply said that they don't support anything except a CGA for v3.0 graphics, so they wouldn't help! The problem presumably must be in the binary include file that they supply (GRAPH.BIN). I know that the Graphix ToolBox does a hardware check to see if the appropriate card is actually there, but Borland denies that GRAPH.BIN does this. Does anyone have a suggestion as to what the problem might be? Brad Keister Physics Dept. Carnegie Mellon U