Barry Bailey (09/14/90)
I recently FTPed three communications programs from CICA.CICA.INDIANA.EDU's PUB/PC/WIN3/UTIL directory. I will be downloading them and testing them soon. Maybe one of them (UC, QVT, WN100K) will work with our PBX. Whilest browsing CICA I noticed a program called TWEAK.ZIP, reputed to boost the effective resolution of normal VGA adapters/monitors. Anyone care to post a review the this utility? Any disclaimers? Problems? What does it do and how fast does it do it? I also noticed a few "free memory" utilities (METZ-FM, KF200, FREEMEM3). Any experienced users care to post a review of these? Any shortcomings? Problems? Disclaimers? thanks in advance barry
jml00458@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jean Michael Liddle) (09/17/90)
In article <9848.5028.forumexp@mts.rpi.edu> Barry Bailey writes: > > Whilest browsing CICA I noticed a program called TWEAK.ZIP, reputed > to boost the effective resolution of normal VGA adapters/monitors. > Anyone care to post a review the this utility? Any disclaimers? > Problems? What does it do and how fast does it do it? > I am currently using TWEAK with a PARADISE 800x600x16 video driver and am very pleased with the results. DOS Windows and large WRITE windows are now manageable, and dithered BMP images on the desktop look almost as good in 16 colors as their origional 256 color images (happiness is relative, I suppose). I'm using an IBM PS/2 70 16 MHz with an 8513 VGA monitor, and the only problem I've run into is the monitor not being able to fit quite all of the 800x600 pixels on the screen. I loose about 1 1/2 cm at the bottom and 3/4 cm on the right hand side (The cursur can still move there and push buttons, etc. but I can't see what's happening). I've found this small inconvenience well worth the added desktop space. -- Jean PS - I would be interested in trying out some of the nonstandard VGA 256 color modes in Windows (360 x 480 x 256, 400 x 600 x 256, etc.). Anyone know if such beasts (tweak programs and/or drivers) exist somewhere?