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Re: Trident VGA, QEMM 6.02 and applications

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From: Juha-Matti Liukkonen
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 17:58
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In <25AUG199211172557@kubvx1> jorna@kubvx1 (AEGEE-Tilburg, Remco Jorna) writes:

>Can anybody please tell me the memory-areas the TRIDENT 8900 vga card uses.
>When I install it together with QEMM 6.02 and run Windows or Ventura the
>application will lock up with the message the the B000 area is already in use
>(this happens when I use the 800x600 or 1024x768 driver). Right now I've
>disabled the area from B000 to CBFF, but don't consider this to be
>satisfactiory.

Hmm. My QEMM line excludes B000-BFFF (the monochrome display area), and
everything works fine.

The memory taken by the 8900 is: 64K VGA - 32K Mono (normally unused) -
32K text. Or something to that effect, anyways.

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               Juha Liukkonen, aka jliukkon@cc.helsinki.fi
       University of Helsinki, Dept. of Paranormal Investigations
           "Trust me, I know what I'm doing." - Sledge Hammer
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From: jliukkon@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Juha-Matti Liukkonen)
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Subject: Re: Trident VGA, QEMM 6.02 and applications
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