kemp@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU (Stuart R. Kemp) (10/13/89)
(I don't think this made it out the first time...) I have seen a TSR that allows users to run a program that expects a CGA card on a Hercules card. Does anyone know where I can find such a program? Replies via email please. Thanks, -Stuart Kemp kemp@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu
fredex@cg-atla.UUCP (Fred Smith) (10/13/89)
In article <16256@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU> kemp@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Stuart R. Kemp) writes: >(I don't think this made it out the first time...) >I have seen a TSR that allows users to run a program that >expects a CGA card on a Hercules card. Does anyone know >where I can find such a program? > >Replies via email please. > >Thanks, >-Stuart Kemp >kemp@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu There are actually several programs around for this purpose, some are shareware and some are not. The two sharewareones I have used most are: simcga40 or simcga41 and hgcibm (version 2.01, I think). Both of these are widely available on many BBS systems. I have seen a couple of others pop up in the last few months on a local bbs, but I don't recall their names. There is (or at least used to be--I haven't had any contact with them for a long time) a company in Athens Georgia, named Athena Digital (the authors, actually, of hgcibm) which offered a product called the Athena BIOS, which is installed at boot time as a device driver and provides a good set of services for cga simulation on a Herc card. They also offer, as an option, a small card which goes into an empty slot and which they claim increases the chances that any givenprogram will work properly with the Athena BIOS (I guess it carries a set of registers that look like a cga, or somethingof the sort). I read in PC Mag a year or more ago of another CGA simulation program (a commercial program) from yet another vendor, but, sorry, I don't remember any details. If you want to try to contact Athena Digital, drop me some mail and I will dig` out the address/phone number for you. Fred Smith uunet!ginosko!cg-atla!fredex