msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mark Robert Smith) (03/28/88)
I have bought a used clone, and it comes with a "MGP CARD" mono
adapter with parallel printer port. Curiously, the manual says that
the board is Herc compatible, and provides 720Hx348V mono graphics.
It doesn't work with Dutchie 2.71, or AN, or a lot of my other
programs, and SIMCGA40 doesn't work. I get the problem of having only
pure white characters displayed.
Can anybody help? Do I gotta buy another card?
Mark
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msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu msmith%topaz.rutgers.edu@CUNYVM.BITNETmsmith@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mark Robert Smith) (03/28/88)
Oh, I forgot. The manual doesn't have the address or name of the
manufacturer in it, and I didn't get anything else on the card.
Mark
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Mark Smith (alias Smitty) "Be careful when looking into the distance,
RPO 1604, CN 5063 that you do not miss what is right under your nose."
New Brunswick, NJ 08903 {backbone}!rutgers!topaz.rutgers.edu!msmith
msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu msmith%topaz.rutgers.edu@CUNYVM.BITNETroot@uwspan.UUCP (Sue Peru Sr.) (03/29/88)
+---- Mark Robert Smith writes ---- | I have bought a used clone, and it comes with a "MGP CARD" mono | adapter with parallel printer port. Curiously, the manual says that | the board is Herc compatible, and provides 720Hx348V mono graphics. | ...and SIMCGA40 doesn't work. I get the problem of having only | pure white characters displayed. +---- I have one of these (from AMT - may they rot in ...) and it works wonderfully in herc mode; simcga3? works quite well on it too! Are you perchance expecting to see "grey" scales or different brightnesses for your "color" characters? The Hercules only gives you ONE bit plane which means either a dot is ON or it is OFF - no other brightness levels are avaliable. Turbo pascal 4.0, Turbo C 1.5, MSC W/3rd party herc support, and my own herc graphics routines all work well on the MGP (Mono Graphics Printer) card. The only problem I've found is that under a few circumstances, if you print the string "_^H<Cursor addressing sequence>, the cursor is not displayed correctly until another char is displayed on the screen... Not really a problem cuz it doesn't happen all the time, but strange. -John -- Comp.Unix.Microport is now unmoderated! Use at your own risk :-)
msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mark Robert Smith) (03/30/88)
I'm not looking for gray, but I am looking for all of the stuff I'm
supposed to see showing up on the screen. SIMCGA40 leaves only the
pure white chars on the screen, as does the Herc card without any TSR.
I think I'm just gonna buy an EGA Wonder.
Mark
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Mark Smith (alias Smitty) "Be careful when looking into the distance,
RPO 1604, CN 5063 that you do not miss what is right under your nose."
New Brunswick, NJ 08903 {backbone}!rutgers!topaz.rutgers.edu!msmith
msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu msmith%topaz.rutgers.edu@CUNYVM.BITNET