Borland TDW & Graphics Accelerators (S3)

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5 total messages Started by Dale Pischke Mon, 04 Jan 1993 16:22

#848

Author: Dale Pischke
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 16:22

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Hello, just tried Borland's TDW with my new Diamond SpeedStar 24X board,
and TDW totally mangles the video in Windows. I assume it is because
TDW is not 'S3 aware'.

So, what do some of you other developers do for debugging, with a
S3 type video board -- I've read that using a monochrome card MIGHT
slow the entire system down -- is this True? Also, I noticed on
Compuserve, there is one DLL in the Borland Library which might make
debugging under a S3 possible, the description of the DLL file said
it was preliminary, though -- anyone have experience with this?

Thanks,

Dale

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Re: Borland TDW & Graphics Accelerators (S3)

#851

Author: Mark Plutowksi
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 03:38

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dale@odetics.com (Dale Pischke) writes:

>Hello, just tried Borland's TDW with my new Diamond SpeedStar 24X board,
>and TDW totally mangles the video in Windows. I assume it is because
>TDW is not 'S3 aware'.

If this isn't an FAQ it should be. Where do I find the FAQ for 
this group anyway??? I'm not at my PC right now so I can't repost
the solution  that I posted some while back, and since I don't know
where the F'ing FAQ is I can't tell you whether it's in there..
If you can wait half a day I can repost it when I get home,
in the mean time maybe somebody else will respond.

Re: Borland TDW & Graphics Accelerators (S3)

#860

Author: Greg.Reinacker
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 16:22

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>>Hello, just tried Borland's TDW with my new Diamond SpeedStar 24X board,
>>and TDW totally mangles the video in Windows. I assume it is because
>>TDW is not 'S3 aware'.

Keep in mind that the Diamond SpeedStar 24X is NOT an S3 board...it uses
a Western Digital accelerator chip.

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Re: Borland TDW & Graphics Accelerators (S3)

#856

Author: Mark Plutowksi
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 17:18

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pluto@cs.ucsd.edu (Mark Plutowksi) writes:

>dale@odetics.com (Dale Pischke) writes:

>>Hello, just tried Borland's TDW with my new Diamond SpeedStar 24X board,
>>and TDW totally mangles the video in Windows. I assume it is because
>>TDW is not 'S3 aware'.

>If this isn't an FAQ it should be. Where do I find the FAQ for 
>this group anyway??? I'm not at my PC right now so I can't repost
>the solution  that I posted some while back, and since I don't know
>where the F'ing FAQ is I can't tell you whether it's in there..
>If you can wait half a day I can repost it when I get home,
>in the mean time maybe somebody else will respond.


First, get the new s3.dll, from Borland's bbs, either their own,
or the one on Compuserve (it may be elsewhere also.)

Put this in your borlandc\bin directory.  Find also a tdw.dll there.
Edit your tdw.ini like follows:

[TurboDebugger]
VideoDLL=c:\borlandc\bin\s3.dll
DebuggerDLL=C:\BORLANDC\BIN\tdwin.dll
[VideoOptions]
DebugFile=c:\borlandc\bin\tdw.log
SaveWholeScreen=no
Int2FAssist=no
IgnoreMode=no


The important lines are the VideoDLL, DebuggerDLL, and DebugFile lines.

And, lastly, make sure that the tdw.ini is in your windows directory,
along with your other *.ini files.

Works for me,  good luck to you,

= Mark

Re: Borland TDW & Graphics Accelerators (S3)

#857

Author: Rami Zureick
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 18:12

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In article <43058@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>, pluto@cs.ucsd.edu (Mark Plutowksi) writes...
>pluto@cs.ucsd.edu (Mark Plutowksi) writes:
> 
>>dale@odetics.com (Dale Pischke) writes:
> 
>>>Hello, just tried Borland's TDW with my new Diamond SpeedStar 24X board,
>>>and TDW totally mangles the video in Windows. I assume it is because
>>>TDW is not 'S3 aware'.
> 
>>If this isn't an FAQ it should be. Where do I find the FAQ for 
>>this group anyway??? I'm not at my PC right now so I can't repost
>>the solution  that I posted some while back, and since I don't know
>>where the F'ing FAQ is I can't tell you whether it's in there..
>>If you can wait half a day I can repost it when I get home,
>>in the mean time maybe somebody else will respond.
> 
> 
>First, get the new s3.dll, from Borland's bbs, either their own,
>or the one on Compuserve (it may be elsewhere also.)

It would be very handy to many of us to have those files uploaded to one 
of the FTP sites such as CICA.

                                                - Rami

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