[comp.sys.ibm.pc] EGA Wonder card and Nota Bene

tj@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Terry Jones) (12/11/88)

I had trouble installing Nota Bene on two machines in the office that had
an ATI EGA Wonder card in it. I was installing the Special Language
Supplement and wasn't getting the correct characters on screen when
I switched to say Greek. I had assumed that I had done something wrong
during the install but recently heard from someone that there were problems
with Nota Bene and the ATI card.

Any body else had this experience?
tj

rjs@moss.ATT.COM (12/13/88)

In article <1988Dec11.140410.10163@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> tj@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Terry Jones) writes:
>I had trouble installing Nota Bene on two machines in the office that had
>an ATI EGA Wonder card in it...
>
>Any body else had this experience?
>tj

The ATI EGA Wonder has a few compatiblilty problems.  It doesn't work well
with mice, and a program called TurboCAD won't run on it either.  Steer away
from it if you are looking for complete compatibility.

	Robert Snyder
	{att|ihnp4|clyde}!moss!rjs
	rjs@moss.ATT.COM
	(201) 386-4467

The above statements are my own thoughts and observations and are not
intended to represent my employer's position on the subject(s).

sba8_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Scott Barnes) (12/14/88)

>In article <1988Dec11.140410.10163@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> tj@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Terry Jones) writes:
>>I had trouble installing Nota Bene on two machines in the office that had
>>an ATI EGA Wonder card in it...
>>
>>Any body else had this experience?
>>tj
>
>The ATI EGA Wonder has a few compatiblilty problems.  It doesn't work well

I have experienced problems using the EGA Wonder card with Windows/386.
Sometimes screens would come up black or, worse, in Japanese!  After several
months of complaint calls to ATI, they sent me a modified Windows 
*executable* that resolved most of the problems, at least until Microsoft
updates Windows.

In short, this ATI product is definitely not "technology" I would "trust"!

                                        -- Scott