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hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton) writes:
>Definitely. Having scooped the early version and gotten past it's install
>I can confirm that at least the 800x600x256 for ET4000 is fine - the 
>colour palette is OK again, and some of the Orchid beta effects are
>gone - I used to get a hang bringing DOS sessions up from the minimized
>window on occasion, didn't happen with plain VGA - this is now history.
>It is not what I would call blisteringly quick for things like re-painting
>after a switch back from WinOS2, etc., but definitely faster in general
>and quite livable, at least for me. Presumably optimizations will happen,
>they certainly did for Win drivers.

I was just a tad bit more excited about the new Tseng drivers when I installed
the CSD.  (Don't worry, folks, I had an extra partition in which I installed
another copy of GA and then the CSD on top of it.)  Finally, a video mode
which is usable with 256 colors and (IMO) nearly as fast as the 640x480x16
original (at 800x600x256, that is...1024x768x256 was rather doggish).  And
the best part?  No more kludging around with PM .GIF viewers...at last I
can have Wingif running in a 256 color seamless session!!!  Oh, Klondike
and Wing Commander in a window look a lot better now, too :-)  Yes, I am
excited, and yes, I can't wait until IBM releases the 'real' thing.

A curiosity, though.  No extended resolution 16 color drivers were to be found.
Could they be even faster if there were?  Hmmm....  Also, I had to insert
disks 8-18 every time I wanted to change the video mode...surely there's a
better way.  (Like the way Windows remembers old video modes and re-reads them
from the hard drive instead of floppies.)

Ian



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