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- Dear User,
-
- Print VPIC.TXT using 17 chars/inch and 8 lines/inch to get a handy one page
- quick reference guide for VPIC. See VPIC.DOC revision history for what's
- new. VPIC.DOC and CONFIG.DOC are already formatted to produce nice documents
- when printed at the default printer settings of 10 chars/in and 6 lines/in.
-
- VPIC will now work with all cards that return VESA information correctly,
- and does not have to be configured; generally, if the top line in the menu
- says VESA, VPIC will work OK. If the top menu line says VESA and only the
- 320x200 mode is listed, see CONFIG.DOC about memory managers. If your
- SuperVGA card does not support VESA (older cards) or returns wrong VESA info
- (most older cards using the S3 chips, etc) then VPIC must be configured for
- your VGA board to utilize all the extended modes the board is capable of
- doing. In addition, if your card returns wrong VESA info, you will have to
- use the /v option to make VPIC ignore VESA info. A generic VESA.CFG config
- file is included so you can play around with the parameters, and maybe get a
- card which isn't supported directly to work; again, use 'vpic /v' to use it.
- To help you configure VPIC properly, the WHICHVGA and CONFIG programs were
- created.
-
- The archived file VESADR.ZIP contains an assortment of VESA TSR (Terminate
- and Stay Resident) drivers for many of the popular video card. Be sure to
- read the READ.ME file contained in the archive. Use PKUNZIP to un-archive
- VESADR.ZIP and the various drivers. This collection came from Compuserve.
-
- IMPORTANT: If you have an ATI card (and possibly some others) certain modes,
- such as 800x600, are disabled unless you select the right monitor in the ATI
- INSTALL or SETUP program. You may have to do a custom monitor configuration
- to enable these modes. The card just refuses to acknowledge these modes with
- the wrong monitor selected.
-
- The CONFIG program allows you to configure VPIC from a menu. Just make sure
- VPIC.EXE, CVPIC.EXE, CONFIG.EXE, and all the configuration files (.cfg ext-
- ension) are in the current directory. Then run CONFIG and you will get a
- menu (similar to the VPIC menu) of all the configuration files. The menu
- also lists the contents of the currently highlighted file. You can move thru
- the list of files using the cursor keys, or by pressing a letter key jump to
- the next filename starting with that letter (or number). Just look for a
- file which matches the parameters for your board, and press ENTER to config-
- ure VPIC using that configuration file. ESCape ends the CONFIG program with-
- out configuring VPIC. If none of the supplied files match your board, copy
- the closest one to a new filename (with extension .cfg) and use a text
- editor to modify it to your boards requirements. Don't use a word processor
- (unless it can produce straight ASCII text) since these usually put control
- codes into the document which will confuse CONFIG and CVPIC. See CONFIG.DOC
- for a list of supported VGA chips and typical boards on which they are used.
- The WHICHVGA program will try to identify your VGA chip and the amount of
- display memory you have. It isn't foolproof, but works most of the time.
-
- See CONFIG.DOC for a comprehensive explanation of the configuration process
- and .cfg file format. See VPIC.DOC for all the other features of VPIC.
-
- The program FIXGIF is supplied to fix single image GIFs where the screen and
- image sizes don't agree. Just do 'fixgif filename'.
-
- The WAIT program is meant for batch file use with VPIC /r, and waits a
- specified number of seconds or until a key is pressed between images. For
- example, a batch file which waits 10 seconds between images might be:
- vpic /r file1
- wait 10
- vpic /r file2
- etc.
-
- Enjoy,
- Bob Montgomery
-