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M8WR30.ZIP - ATI Technologies Inc.
█████████████████████████████████████████████ ATI Technologies Inc.
████████(R)███▀ ▄▄▄ ▀██ 33 Commerce Valley Drive East
████████████▀ ▀▀▀ ▄██ Thornhill, ON L3T 7N6
██████████▀ ▄█████ █████████████████ CANADA
████████▀ ▄██▀▀███ ████████▀ ▀████
██████▀ ▄███ ██ ████████ ████ Support: (905) 882-2626
████▀ ▄██████▄▄███ ████████ ████ Support FAX: (905) 882-0546
██▀ ▄█████████████ ████████ ████ Compuserve: GO ATITECH
██▄ ▄███████████████▄ ▄████████▄ ▄████ ┌─────────────────────────────┐
████▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀█████ │ ATI mach8 revision 3.0 │
███▌ T E C H N O L O G I E S I N C . ▐████ │ 256 color ATI Desktop driver│
████▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄█████ │ for Windows 3.1 and 3.11 │
█████████████████████████████████████████████ └─────────────────────────────┘
Length Method Size Ratio Date Time CRC-32 Attr Name
------ ------ ----- ----- ---- ---- -------- ---- ----
57419 Implode 29472 49% 07-26-94 13:10 d2f5b34e --w- WININST.EXE
36712 Stored 36712 0% 07-26-94 12:49 94935ae1 --w- MACHW.LZH
2130 Implode 883 59% 04-15-94 17:44 c0d16860 --w- WININST.HLP
206417 Stored 206417 0% 07-11-94 09:55 5a6aaea0 --w- MACHS.LZH
2228 Implode 1126 50% 07-26-94 13:39 c938ffdf --w- README
788 Implode 336 58% 07-26-94 14:36 cdbecbb6 --w- LOADER.VSF
968 Stored 968 0% 07-11-94 16:50 2a21873c --w- MACHE.LZH
295931 Stored 295931 0% 07-26-94 14:35 a048b6a2 --w- ATIDESK.LZH
------ ------ --- -------
602593 571845 6% 8
IMPORTANT DRIVER INFORMATION:
In order to resolve outstanding issues with Windows 3.1/3.11,
and Windows based applications, ATI has released this new
driver for the ATI 38800 (Mach8) chipset based graphics cards.
This new Mach8 Windows driver, which runs on Mach8 cards with
1MB of accelerator memory, is faster than previously released
drivers with an emphasis on stability. Extensive internal and
beta testing have shown the driver to meet this target criteria.
In order to achieve the speed and stability the designers were
targeting, the specifications for this new driver differ from
the original Mach8 Windows driver in the following ways;
- The new driver does not support 16 color (4bpp) mode.
Incorporating 16 color mode into the driver would seriously
affect performance. This mode was also found to be
incompatible with most of the software applications that are
currently being released.
- Since the 1280x1024 resolution was only supported on later
versions of the Mach8 family of graphics cards, and it only
supported 16 colors, the new driver does not incorporate
this mode.
- The proprietary Crystal Font feature that appeared in the
original Mach8 driver, was also dropped for performance and
compatibility reasons.
The new driver operates in 256 color mode at 640x480,
800x600 and 1024x768 resolutions in Windows 386 enhanced
mode only. It features an ATI desktop with the look and
feel of Windows drivers offered with ATI's high end graphics
products.
This driver is available from Library #17 of the ATI
forum on Compuserve (GO ATITECH) or for download from the
Canadian ATI Download BBS at (905) 764-9404 and German ATI
Download BBS at +<49> 89 460 90766 {8N1}.
Mach8 based graphics cards include the Graphics Ultra,
Graphics Vantage, 8514/Ultra and VGAWonder GT products.
INSTALLATION NOTES:
1. Ensure that you have a copy of LOADER.ZIP. The LOADER utility is used
to install this driver. LOADER.ZIP is available on the ATI BBS and on
our CompuServe forum.
2. Ensure that you have a copy of PKUNZIP.EXE, v1.10 or later. PKUNZIP
is available on most BBS and information services, including the ATI
BBS and CompuServe.
3. Do NOT attempt to perform the driver installation from within Windows.
Exit Windows completely, and perform the following operations in DOS.
4. Unzip LOADER.ZIP and M8WR30.ZIP into the same temporary directory on
your hard disk, then run the LOADER utility. For example:
MD \ATITEMP
PKUNZIP LOADER.ZIP \ATITEMP
PKUNZIP M8WR30.ZIP \ATITEMP
CD \ATITEMP
LOADER
5. Follow the screen prompts for installing the Windows driver.
6. Once the driver has been installed, you can delete the contents of the
temporary directory (DEL \ATITEMP\*.*) and delete the directory itself
(RD \ATITEMP).
7. We recommend that you copy the ZIP files (M8WR30.ZIP and LOADER.ZIP) to
floppy disk, in case you need to install the driver again.