ant@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (Anthony Murdoch) (11/18/90)
Hi netters, I have been playing around with this rgl for a couple of hours and frankly, I'm stumpped. Has anyone actually managed to get any of the demos to do anything ? All I get when I run any of the demos is a little coloured stripe pattern in the top left hand of the otherwise blank screen. I tried to compile one of the example sources. This worked OK, but when I tried to run the resulting code, you guessed it, the same little pattern on a blank screen. The machine was a i486 with an Orchid vga card. Anyone have any ideas ? ant -- V ant "It's great to be young and insane" \o/ ant@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au - Dream Team -O- Anthony Murdoch Prentice Computer Centre /0\ Phone (07) 3774078 University of Qld
pfratar@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Paul Frattaroli - DCS) (11/20/90)
In article <1990Nov18.072655.16316@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au> ant@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (Anthony Murdoch) writes: >Hi netters, > [stuff deleted] > >I tried to compile one of the example sources. This worked OK, but when I >tried to run the resulting code, you guessed it, the same little pattern on >a blank screen. All the demos I looked at ran in CGA 640x200x2 mode. I'm not sure what other modes it can do. I think that is probably it. All thought the graphics are fast, I personally am not too impressed with RGL. It is very old. The documentation says that a CHANGE statement in the loop will allow a "BREAK" to be caught, but it doesn't for me. (I hate pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL to stop a program). I think if it were updated a bit, it would be pretty good, but the present situation is disappointing. >The machine was a i486 with an Orchid vga card. Anyone have any ideas ? > Video card isn't completely compatible?? Bad BIOS?? The docs say that the RGL compiler produces 8086 machine language routines to do the graphics and many assumptions are made about the type of hardware you are using (read: It thinks PC/XT only. It is very old after all). Maybe your video is mapped somewhere different than where it expects?? ....Paul -- Paul "vi joe" Frattaroli - Department of Computing Services University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario Canada N2L-3G1 < pfratar@watshine.UWaterloo.CA > < pfratar@watserv1.UWaterloo.CA > [129.97.128.171] [129.97.129.140] NeXT Mail: < pfratar@magpie.UWaterloo.CA > [129.97.32.42]