Hi,
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 3:50 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
>
> Another dumb question; are there any good books out there about Vesa.?
You mean actual physical books? Just documenting the spec or
demonstrating use or example programs or ... ? I could be wrong, but I
assume you mean the DOS-oriente
Hi,
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 1:50 PM, John Hupp wrote:
> On 6/10/2015 10:28 AM, John Hupp wrote:
>
> I am nonetheless happy to have a few things to work with to better match
> an LCD's aspect ratio: Eric's trick, for instance, on cards that support
> it. And I can also report that Japheth's setmx
John Hupp composed on 2015-06-10 10:28 (UTC-0400):
> ...It worked with a Trident TGVI9680 PCI (ca. 1997) which has native VESA
> 1.2 support supporting 14 modes
John Hupp composed on 2015-06-10 14:50 (UTC-0400):
> ...So I dug around and found an even older ISA card (a lowly 512KB Trident
>
On 6/10/2015 10:28 AM, John Hupp wrote:
> It seems like I still have some things to try, however. Rugxulo
> suggested two utilities that may or do use other methods: setmxx and
> svgatextmode.
>
An important discovery -- the Oak ISA card that was the source of so
much of this discussion appear
Hi,
I somehow stumbled upon this blog/website which seems to host a FD 1.1
bootable USB image (and tells steps on how to make/install it ... with
screenshots!).
http://joelinoff.com/blog/?p=431
Maybe I missed it, but I'm not sure if any of us directly discussed
this before, so I'm mentioning it
On 6/9/2015 6:31 PM, Eric Auer wrote:
> Hi John,
>
>> ... Does "mode con lines=34" require anything besides VESA support? I
>> concluded from my reading that it did not need DISPLAY.SYS or [ANSI]
> Here is a quick trick with mode:
>
> MODE CON LINES=1
>
> (or any other weird value) lists possible v
