pfeifer@hpavla.AVO.HP.COM (Mark Pfeifer) (07/11/90)
What resolutions does the Video-7 (w/512K) driver shipped with Windows 3 support? I'm considering getting a Video-7 1024i card w/512K, but my monitor can only support 800x600. Will this work? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Mark Pfeifer pfeifer@hpavla.hp.com Hewlett-Packard Avondale Division Avondale, PA #include <disclaimer.h> ______________________________________ #define OPINIONS mine ________ _________________________
ttak@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Timothy Takahashi) (07/12/90)
In article <9280006@hpavla.AVO.HP.COM> pfeifer@hpavla.AVO.HP.COM (Mark Pfeifer) writes: >What resolutions does the Video-7 (w/512K) driver shipped with Windows 3 >support? I'm considering getting a Video-7 1024i card w/512K, but my >monitor can only support 800x600. Will this work? The Video-7 driver supplied with windows is for 640x480x256 colors. The other drivers for 740x400 (?), 800x600 and 1024x768 are available from the Video-7 BBS (or call video-7) tim
gyugyi@portia.Stanford.EDU (Paul Gyugyi) (07/13/90)
In article <9280006@hpavla.AVO.HP.COM> pfeifer@hpavla.AVO.HP.COM (Mark Pfeifer) writes: >What resolutions does the Video-7 (w/512K) driver shipped with Windows 3 >support? I'm considering getting a Video-7 1024i card w/512K, but my >monitor can only support 800x600. Will this work? > I have a 1024i w/512K and use the 800x600 res driver from Video-7 on my Multisync II, and an pleased with the results. HOwever, I would advise you to look for a video board that will do 800x600 in 256 colors. The 1024i is limited to 16, although other Vid-7 boards will do 800x600x256 with only 512K. As for the 640x480x256 color driver that comes with windows for the Vid-7 boards, I have been unable to get any program other than the desktop to load in a 256 color bitmap and display it in more than the 20 default colors windows puts in the pallette. Even Paintbrush, which will load and display a 256 color file, won't let me draw with more than the 20 default colors. I have this nice 256 color fractal gif, and can only paint with 20 colors? Even when I choose to create a custom color, it just gives me a 16 color dithered brush. Of course I realize that it's probably deliberately crippled, and I realize that although most companies have maintenance versions of their product to work with 3.0 noone has figured out the palette manager yet. > >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Mark Pfeifer pfeifer@hpavla.hp.com > Hewlett-Packard Avondale Division > Avondale, PA #include <disclaimer.h> > ______________________________________ #define OPINIONS mine > Paul Gyugyi gyugyi@portia.stanford.edu
karl@ficc.ferranti.com (Karl Lehenbauer) (07/13/90)
In article <9280006@hpavla.AVO.HP.COM> pfeifer@hpavla.AVO.HP.COM (Mark Pfeifer) writes: >What resolutions does the Video-7 (w/512K) driver shipped with Windows 3 >support? I'm considering getting a Video-7 1024i card w/512K, but my >monitor can only support 800x600. Will this work? The Video-7 driver shipped with Windows 3 only supports standard VGA resolution. Maybe it uses the enhanced capabilities of the card to achieve higher performance or something. You can, however, call Video-7's BBS and download drivers for Windows 3 for ~752X512 256 color, 800X600 16 color and 1024X768 16 color. Or they'll mail you a copy. I got them and they worked for me in all resolutions. Sorry I don't have the number, I'm at work and it's at home, but it was one of the appendices of the Video-7 manual. -- -- uunet!ficc!karl "I am here by the will of the people and I won't leave uunet!sugar!karl until I get my raincoat back." -- Metrophage
strobl@gmdzi.UUCP (Wolfgang Strobl) (07/14/90)
pfeifer@hpavla.AVO.HP.COM (Mark Pfeifer) writes: >What resolutions does the Video-7 (w/512K) driver shipped with Windows 3 >support? I'm considering getting a Video-7 1024i card w/512K, but my >monitor can only support 800x600. Will this work? Sure. It supports 640*480*256 only. I have tried to reach their US bbs in order to download new drivers, but have not succeeded so far. At home I use an Eizo 9060S (which supports up to 600*800) with a cheap Tseng card (optima 1024/a plus with 512K) with the 800*600*16 driver which I got from this newsgroup. I am very satisfied with this configuration. (I would be even move satisfied if I could get a driver supporting the cards 800*600*256 mode). Of course the 1024i is much faster than my card. Wolfgang Strobl #include <std.disclaimer.h>