Re: [colorforth] ColorFORTH probable FAQ

["Michael M. Butler" <mmb@xxxxxxxxx>]

That sounds quite promising! I'll look into it soon. I have an old S3 ViRGE
card lying arond somewhere, I'm pretty sure. Thanks!

2002-11-21 04:42:15, Peter Appelman <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Mike,
>
>I have run colorforth on a K6-2/350, Tyan Trinity 100at mb. with S3
>Virge display. To make it work I used Mark Slicker's image of
>colorforth, which uses a different method of initializing the display.
>You can find it on
>http://www.oakland.edu/~maslicke/colorforth/vesa-chuck
>
>Download the color.com file. Go to DOS, and use debug to write it to a
>formatted floppy:
>... debug <path>color.com
>... w 100 0 0 7e
>But be careful, the 'w' command, if entered incorrectly, CAN and WILL
>mess with your system in a drastic way. 
>
>Peter.
>
>On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 05:00:57PM -0800, Michael M. Butler wrote:
>> I know people must have asked this, and I know that "it's not Chuck's problem", but I wanted to know 
if 
>> there is a list of machines/configs that seem to work. Every machine I've tried doesn't seem to do the 
job.
>> When I say "config" I mean mobo mfr & model, floppy drive brand (and version?), video card mfr & 
model, and 
>> relevant BIOS settings--any other details would be nice (what mouse connection, what keyboard 
connection, 
>> etc.).
>> 
>> My main machine is a K6-2 on a Tyan Trinity 100 motherboard, with 1/5 a gig of RAM. Neither that nor 
the 
>> old Sharp 33 Mhz 486 DX laptop from Sharp seem to boot all the way. "Maybe it's your hairspray or 
>> something."
>> 
>> Thanks in advance.
>> 
>> Mike
>
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