Messages in this thread | | | From | "Ulrich Windl" <> | Date | Mon, 4 Mar 1996 09:14:18 +0100 | Subject | Re: Win95 style graphical boot screen |
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On 3 Mar 96 at 23:15, Harvey Fishman wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Feb 1996, Ulrich Windl wrote: [...] > > > > CGA only has 4 colors at a time. For Hercules users we may only use 2 > > colors. For those with a monochrome card (the real one) we may not > > use any graphics. Therefore: Just use 80x25 text mode (BIOS mode 3). > > Errr, if you really want to support MDA and Hercules, then you better use > BIOS mode 7 video only and then limit things to 40 columns. That is the
Agreed! Another back-out; mode 7 is the thing. But if I have to use 40 colums, I go to the cellar and get the old Video Genie out (64x16 resolution) ;-)
> lingua franca of IBM displays, and will work with MDA, Herc, and CGA (and > of course with everything since.) > ------------ Ulrich Windl Klinikum der Universitaet Regensburg Rechenzentrum DV-med Franz-Josef-Strauss-Allee 11 Tel: +49 941 944-5879 D-93053 Regensburg FAX: +49 941 944-5882 Just imagine my mail address were <Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni.r.de>...
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