Author: Keith Ian Price
Date: 19:45:38 12/03/97
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On December 03, 1997 at 19:47:04, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >On December 03, 1997 at 18:49:16, Thorsten Czub wrote: > >>>If this were the reason, you wouldn't have posted two TSRs on your page >>>to make CST work properly on some computers. Case in point: CST not >>>running properly with ATI video boards. I tried with the ATI's TSR and >>>Univesa TSR, both downloadable from your home page as a solution for >>>loading CST. No use. It doesn't work either on my HP with a Chips and >>>Technologies video board. These video problems wouldn't happen with a >>>Windows program. >> >>As I said Enrique, as long as you bypass your config.sys/autoexec.bat >>instead of loading them after booting, the new devices cannot be loaded >>and cannot CHANGE the wrong default setting in your video-card-bios. > >This is nonsense. The TSR from ATI can be loaded at any moment. Same for >Univesa. They simply do not work. > >>Also ATI's TSR is a bugfix because THEIR product has problems with the >>VESA mode. > >Remember I also have a problem with a Chips and Technologies video card. >Too many problems overall. > >>Otherwise they would not have invented it ! > >I don't care about whose fault it is, video card manufacturers, dubious >VESA standards or programs that adhere to VESA. And this is Fernando's >point, if I am not mistaken. I get a program and I want to test it and >to use it. As simple as that. None (NONE) of my Windows programs give me >this kind of compatibility problems. Some are full of bugs, for example >last year Power Chess was crashing every other minute. And this may be >expected from badly written programs. But we are talking about something >else: the user-friendliness (lack of) of DOS programs. > >Enrique I think you will be able to use CSTal on your ATI card if you run the vesa driver with the "s" switch. The problem is the dual page mode, and CSTal needs a single page mode. So if you have a Rage 3d card, the vesa bios extensions should be loaded with "m64vbe s" on the command line. If you have an older card, you should check the vesa bios instructions for the switch to use single page mode. There should be one. Hope this helps, kp
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