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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 must be configured for your VGA board to utilize all the extended modes
the board is capable of doing, unless it is VESA compatible. 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 (older Orchid F1280, Diamond Stealth, 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, or you want to enable any hi-color modes, you will have to configure
VPIC for your card and use the /v option to tell VPIC to ignore VESA info.
For the S3 chips, VESA checking has been disabled; if you want to verify
if yours works or not, configure for some other chip (ie, TS4000) and give
it a try. A number of VESA drivers are included in VESADR.ZIP, which was on
Compuserve. To help you to configure VPIC properly, the WHICHVGA and CONFIG
programs were created. A VESA config file has been included, and the CIRRUS54
config file shows how it was used to make the Cirrus 54xx boards work.
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 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 might be:
vpic /r file1
wait 10
vpic /r file2
etc.
Enjoy,
Bob Montgomery