blw@acsu.buffalo.edu (brian l wybaillie) (10/26/90)
System: Tandy 1000TL, 286 8Mhz
color CGA
40 Meg hard card
640k memory
Problem: After installing the command, Explosiv -m5 in my autoexec.bat file
everything seemed to work just fine. After an idol time of 5 minutes the
screen would display pulsating fireworks (wow). And after typing any key it
would display the origional screen. ok so far.
But just last night i decided that 5 minutes was not long enough, so i edited
the command to read Explosive -10. well the next time i booted up the system
the screen saver started up without a delay, and typing a key didn't seem to
help. that is, it just kept on displaying those moronic fireworks.
By this time i was quite upset so i tried a software interupt
(ctrl-alt-del) but after booting the screen just flashed lots and lots of
multicolored characters. at this time i decided to use to hardware reset
this time it booted like normal but the screen was not the same. it seems to
be in a different mode. the characters are much larger, infact the first
5 or 6 characters in the command line are not visable due to this expansion.
also the colors are different, it will only display two shades of green and
one of purple.
i have removed the hard card, and rebooted from a flopy, nothing has
changed.
is there a simple explination to this, or have i severely damaged
something (ie. EEPROM)?
i'd greatly appreciate some feedback from anyone with this sort of
know how.
thanks in advance.
Brian Wybaillie
University @ Buffalojdwhite@iastate.edu (White Jason David) (10/27/90)
In article <42700@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> blw@acsu.buffalo.edu (brian l wybaillie) writes: > >System: Tandy 1000TL, 286 8Mhz > color CGA > 40 Meg hard card > 640k memory > >Problem: After installing the command, Explosiv -m5 in my autoexec.bat file >everything seemed to work just fine. After an idol time of 5 minutes the >screen would display pulsating fireworks (wow). And after typing any key it >would display the origional screen. ok so far. >But just last night i decided that 5 minutes was not long enough, so i edited >the command to read Explosive -10. well the next time i booted up the system >the screen saver started up without a delay, and typing a key didn't seem to >help. that is, it just kept on displaying those moronic fireworks. > By this time i was quite upset so i tried a software interupt >(ctrl-alt-del) but after booting the screen just flashed lots and lots of >multicolored characters. at this time i decided to use to hardware reset >this time it booted like normal but the screen was not the same. it seems to >be in a different mode. the characters are much larger, infact the first >5 or 6 characters in the command line are not visable due to this expansion. >also the colors are different, it will only display two shades of green and >one of purple. > i have removed the hard card, and rebooted from a flopy, nothing has >changed. > > is there a simple explination to this, or have i severely damaged >something (ie. EEPROM)? > > i'd greatly appreciate some feedback from anyone with this sort of >know how. > >thanks in advance. > >Brian Wybaillie >University @ Buffalo Sounds like your Tandy got switched into it's built-in Hercules graphics mode. There should be a little sticker on the back of your TL that tells how to switch modes. I believe it's CRTL-ALT-SHIFT-V. -Jason White jdwhite@iastate.edu