portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) (08/22/90)
I recently downloadd the following from cbip:
v07i197: frac11, another tetris-like game (part 01/03)
only to find that it requires an EGA or VGA graphics adapter. If I
had known this in advance, I would have skipped it.
Would it be possible to list hardware requirements for programs that
use graphics and other weird features, so that we can decide whether
or not to spend time downloading a program?
Side commentary: I realize that monochrome and CGA are pretty
antiquated for desktop systems (heck, they were antiquated to begin
with) and that most of the world is now EGA or VGA, but there are a
growing number of us who own laptop computers that offer only
monochrome and CGA capability. For us, software compatibility is
still an issue.
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In article <PORTUESI.90Aug22115546@tweezers.esd.sgi.com> portuesi@sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) writes: | Would it be possible to list hardware requirements for programs that | use graphics and other weird features, so that we can decide whether | or not to spend time downloading a program? If something is labelel in the docs (and I see it) I try to note this. However, the smallest test system which I use now has standard VGA insdead of super. So I may miss something like this. Sorry you didn't get something you could use now, but hopefully you will be getting an upgrade eventually. -- bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen) sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me