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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: rushfan357 AT aol DOT com (RushFan357), djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 10:15:47 +0000
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Subject: Re: VGA Debugging in RHIDE (more info)
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rushfan357 AT aol DOT com (RushFan357) wrote:

> I'd like to give a little more info if I could.
> I'm running RHIDE 1.4 on a 200MMX(Intel) w 32 megs of RAM. My OS is Win 95
> OSR2. My video card is a Matrox Millenium w 4megs RAM.

Can you try with another video board (not Matrox)?
 
> I know that I've got the horsepower (but maybe not the hardware eh?) to run the
> debugger, but after seeing the response about the possibility of an unsupported
> video mode, I did some tweaking in my enviornment.
> I usually run 24 bit color in 1024 X 768, so I scaled down to 800 X 600 and
> then 640 X 480 in 256 color mode. RHIDE bombed both times. I then took it out
> of 95' and ran it in DOS mode. It bombed again.
> 
> I am using Allegro's mouse stuff, but I don't believe that's the problem (yet
> :) because I'm not getting that far in the code. 

Are you sure? So then it crash before the mouse initialization?
 
> When RHIDE bombs, it looks like it' trying to draw Doom's screen in the upper
> 2/3rds of the window, then it just shuts down. No GPF or anything under 95. In
> DOS mode it just blanks the screen, locks up & I'm forced to cold boot.
> 
> I'm at a loss. I thought that Matrox would have modes that worked OK... OH
> well. 
> Does anyone have any ideas, cuz I would love to get the debugger working.

I think you can use a second monitor, get an Hercules card and a monochrome 
monitor and avoid the video mode switch. Here you can get it for 45-60 dolars, 
no much compared with the whole cost of your machine.
 
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