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A friend of mine recently bought a Cardex hi-colour 1Mb graphics card,
using the Tseng ET-4000 chipset.

Having access to this 24 bit colour, he then bought a video digitising card -
the Rombo Media-Pro Plus.

Unfortunatly, after installing the card and the Windows 3.1 software, he found
that the card only worked in standard 16 and 256 colour modes. Furthermore,
he could no longer use windows AT ALL in the high colour modes, as most of the
colours become black or white.

Whilst the digitiser does not need a hi-colour mode, (it chroma-keys its output
into the pc's VGA video signals), it is rather a waste of a hi colour card!

Also, the software supplied with the digitiser refuses to save 256 colour BMP
files. It reports a sofware failure, followed by a windows AE message, which
closes down the program.

The software only works at all in the 386 enhanced mode - otherwise the
sotware is completely unable to access the card's on board ram.

24bit bmp files are (Slightly) more sucessful, but only a very small number
of windows and DOS programs will load them in correctly (if at all). So much
for a standard file format!

Does anyone know how to solve (or improve) either of the above problems?

Thanks. 
Dominic Goode (ee90dhg@brunel.ac.uk)
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