VGA Card Analyzer

VGA Card Analyzer
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The VGACARD program will attempt to work out what type of display
hardware is in your system, such that it can advise you about
selecting a suitable driver for Alchemy Mindworks' software. It's
applicable to Graphic Workshop for DOS, Image Gallery and Desktop
Paint 256.

Note that while VGACARD is usually right, the considerable
variety of display card types could manage to confuse it. As
such, its results should be filtered through common sense.

To use VGACARD, type:

        VGACARD

at the DOS prompt. It will tell you whether it finds:

- A standard VGA BIOS... this should be present in all VGA cards.
- A VESA BIOS, and the modes thereof.
- A super VGA card of a type supported by Alchemy Mindworks'
  software.

It may advise you about the suitability of your display hardware
for specific applications.

If VGACARD indicates that your card has VESA capabilities, the
VESA drivers in Alchemy Mindworks' applications should work, even
if your card type is unrecognized.

If your card does not support VESA and no driver is available for
it in its native mode, you can probably use a TSR VESA
interpreter to temporarily provide it with VESA calls. A
collection of such programs is available by calling the Alchemy
Mindworks bulletin board at 1-905-729-4609.

NOTE: If no hardware-specific driver is available for your card
you can still use it in the standard VGA modes with Graphic
Workshop and Image Gallery. You cannot use it with Desktop Paint
256.

There are a number of drivers provided with Graphic Workshop and
Image Gallery which support cards that VGACARD will not detect,
primarily drivers written by third parties. If VGACARD says
there's no driver for your system, look at the section of GWS.DOC
or GAL.DOC, or at the super VGA driver page of their respective
installers, to see if your card is supported.

LEGAL DOGMA
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VGACARD is copyright (c) 1992, 1993 Alchemy Mindworks Inc.

Neither the author nor Alchemy Mindworks Inc. assumes
responsibility for any damage or loss caused by the use of these
programs, however it comes down. If you can think of a way a
picture program can cause you damage or loss you've a sneakier
mind than mine.

All the registered trademarks used herein are registered to
whoever it is that owns them. This notification is given in lieu
of any specific list of trademarks and their owners, which would
not be as inclusive and would probably take a lot longer to type.

Graphic Workshop, Desktop Paint and Image Gallery, are trademarks
of Alchemy Mindworks Inc.
 
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