[connect.audit] WY-700 HELP

bobkil@ibmpcug.co.uk (Bob Kilgore) (03/01/91)

A question about a unique? display adaptor/interface.

I read the marketing literature on the WY-700, monochrome,
display, graphics, subsystem.  With a high resolution of
1280 X 800 pixel it seems just the ticket for my CAD
package.  I have been using CGA with a Hercules adaptor and
colour monitor.  I was willing to sacrifice colour for the
high resolution.

Installed everything and worked first time.  Ran demo
program and was much impressed with the drawings.  I then
started to run the setup for my CAD program to find out
which display driver was compatible.  You guessed it, the
only driver I could run was CGA.

The CAD package is Pro-Design II which I bought in New York
about 7 years ago.  The documentation was damaged in
shipment over and I cant read the name of the company that
wrote the package.  I had talked to them some years back
about an HP laser jet printer driver and they weren't very
helpful.

I have now read the documentation for the WY-700 subsystem
and it is made clear that it will only run in CGA mode as
standard.  They included a set of drivers for applications
packages, 4 as I recall, and Pro-Design wasn't one of them.
I do, however, have the best looking Lotus 1-2-3 I have ever
seen, unfortunately I only use it 3 or 4 times a year.

Two questions I currently have;
1) Is there anyone out there who has drivers for specific
   applications packages for WY-700 subsystems???
2) Is there any 'GENERIC' driver, for example one that will
   make this thing appear to the system as a VGA
   subsystem???

Thanks for any assistance;
Is anyone from Wyse listening ???  Nice moniter but I can't
afford AUTOCAD.

Best Regards;
BOB
bobkil@ibmpcug.co.uk
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