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Re: Tseng colours

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From: Marc Allen
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 21:43
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news@massey.ac.nz (USENET News System) writes:

>I've been using OS/2 for about a month now and I think it is fantastic. 
>Still, Windows 3.1 is pretty good too - especially with the number of 
>colours I can play with - 32K of them.

>This is not so much a question as a state of puzzlement...why isn't there 
>support for 256 colours or more for Tseng-4000 cards yet???

>True, I've seen the Orchid drivers, even tried a couple of them, but the 
>colours look a little funny and I'd like to think that Tseng themselves 
>might put out a driver set.

>P.S. I'm using an Everex Step 33 at work (which I think is Tseng based) and 
>a nornal Tseng (clone?) card at home which has the Windows 3.1 32K colour 
>drivers (640x480 and 800x600).

>Anyone have any comments?

Are you referring to OS/2 drivers?  If so, I can't help you.  There are
drivers for Windows, including turbo drivers for the ET4000.  I tried the
turbo drivers, but they messed up my fonts, so I went back to the ol'
04/02/92 series.

Marc
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