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#Diamond Viper Error 4
Message #106526
Hoah – After looking into the "Error 4" message you are seeing on the diamond viper, it appears to me that the only way for this error to occur is for your system to be out of available file handles. Error 4 is actually a DOS extended error 4, which…
Dave – Sorry for the missing color icons. Have you tried the ATI BBS? They might have a newer version. Chuck Walbourn – Vibrant
Alex – UltraCAD 68800 is our OEM feature driver for ATI. It has a bird's eye and hotkeys, which are lacking in DL-Xpress, as well as a few other features. I am not sure which versions are in the current shipments. ATI ships a LOT of boards and we are…
Alex – ProRes/3DS is a stand-alone product which provides 40-50% faster redraw times in the display screens (editor, shaper); color-mapping icons; fully configurable resolutions and fonts for the display screens, materials editor, RCPADI rendering, and RDPADI rendering; full support for all possible mixtures of video hardware and resolutions; and much…
Alex – DL-XPress 2.1.5 and up from the ATI BBS includes the color mapping icons, as well as a 40-50% speed increase over other drivers. If ATI does not yet have that version available, you can always contact Vibrant at 1-512-250-1711 for a retail upgrade to DL-XPress or ProRes/3DS. The…
Martin – No, the CompuColor is not the same machine that Radio Shack also sold. Amazing how much $$$ we blew in those days… Actually, come to think of it, amazing out much $$$ we still blow… Jack Bayt
Tim – Glad to be of service. I'll pass this on down to the tech support guys, see if they can duplicate it. Jack Bayt – Vibrant
Jim – The Compucolor was the second machine I ever used, the first was a HP9000 in 78. Compucolor in 79. When I was cleaning out a closet the other week, came across a whole box of games that I wrote for it in 79-80. Some of them were cool.…
ati ultra pro
Message #38094
Tim – Sorry – what you are seeing is a problem with the ATI board at 800×600 24 bit. Basically, you are seeing CPU timming contention with the refresh logic. Before we release the driver to ATI we gave them a choice of having that mode removed from the menu,…
Actaully, the problem that I thought was in the assembler was actaully a user error (me). So now that I have the updated lib and link utilities, everything is working rock solid. Jack Bayt – Vibrant
John – Thanks for the quick answer. Micheal, if you don't have our v2.1.5, please just either send me EMAIL requesting the update, or call our sales folks, they will take care of you. Jack Bayt – Vibrant
Rich – When you say color bands, do you mean the minor ones that one may expect to see, almost not visible, or are they major? We believe that our driver is the best on the market for the following reasons. Solid support for RDPADI. Large usable materials editor. Seperate…
Randale – I may have already do this, but just in case please EMAIL me your addr and phone, and remind me that this is for AAPRO, and I'll have the information sent to you. Thanks – Jack Bayt – Vibrant
Alex – CompuColor was a 8080 based computer back in 79-82 or so. Offered ROM basic, and 128×128 8 color graphics. Massive 52k floppy drive. 16k ram standard (or was it 8?), upgradable to 32k. No, it did not run CPM. If someone has one that works (must include working…
Ingo – >Why are they not documented in my 3DS performance and installation guide of >3DS ???? [DOSX environment variable stuff] Good question. I always just look in the Phar Lap manual, but then, not everyone needs to spend the $ to buy the Phar lap SDK Jack Bayt
Gus – I've been playing with Phar Lap 5.0 for a while now (ok about a week and a half). Ran into a number of small bugs with trying to link more than 100 modules (we link around 900). Called up, left a message, and was called back in about…
Greg – I'm able to answer the first part. If you use the -dem switch, then the .EXE is demand paged loaded from the disk at start up. This means that more and more of 3DS will be sucked into memory as you use various portions of the program. My…
ati ultra pro
Message #37714
Tim – When settup up the Ultra Pro, use the CONFIG program and set the VGA memory size to SHARED. That fixes most problems. Jack Bayt – Vibrant
Scott – Most of the "random" rebooting problems may be resolved by running the APATCH program. You may find it in library 9, or it's also inside of the SE215.ZIP file. We have also performed a number of enhancements to the 3DS driver since Sept, which is the version that…
#2.01a
Message #37712
Buck – Please EMAIL me your addr and phone, well send you our driver for 3DS. When 2.01a was released, we did not have to update our drivers at all. To the best of our knowledge, there is no reason for a driver that worked with v2 to not work…
#!@#$% rendering colors
Message #37711
Carl – What you are seeing is a bug in 3DS when switching between display/rendering screens when starting the second frame. Due to the way that our driver works, we maintain complete independent contexts between the display and rendering screens, thus we are able to handle the asychronous calls between…
#Compucolor
Message #37710
Hey – Does anyone out there actually have a Compucolor that actually works? Jack Bayt
pentium p5 ,p6 , p7
Message #37709
Hummmmmm…….CPM…… Back then, we were proud that we sold a couple thousand copies of a software product… BIG HIT. Today, a couple of thousand wouldn't even pay the phone bills Jack
HP Ultra VGA+
Message #37708
Dick – Most of the local bus S3's bios's don't do a very good job with VESA support. Our S3 AAPRO driver should have no problems. EMAIL or call for info, chances are a dealer is in your area. Jack Bayt – Vibrant
TIGA driver for AA
Message #37707
Hal – To better serve our customers we added another full time tech support person. Over the last 9 months have went through a large growth phase, now that that's stabilized, we are addressing all areas of customer support. We have recently released the AAPRO driver with TIGA support, again…
#DIAMOND LIES?!!!
Message #37706
Martin – The Genoa is a good choise for 3DS, since it's a et4000 you will have no flic playing problems from within 3DS. Also we support all the modes of that board so 3DS will work great. Our currently shipping drivers do not suppor the Stealth 24. These will…
#Problems with AAWIN
Message #37705
For AAWIN the windows driver is responsible for all graphics. Sorry, we only have drivers for AAPRO (DOS). Thanks for the interest. Jack Bayt – Vibrant
Fritz – Drivers for the ATI board are up on the ATI BBS, considering that these are from Sept, they work great with R12 and 3DS. Most of the changes since the Sept release has been into R12, but 3DS has also been reworked for greater performance and usability. If…
Andy – Vibrant has a animator driver for the F1280 board. Contact your local dealer or us for info, or just EMAIL me addr and phone. Thanks – Jack Bayt – Vibrant
Carl – ProRes retails for less than the DLXpress driver. However, all of our retail products include the exact same functionality that ProRes 3DS provides, so that by using AutoCAD, you don't lose 3DS. ProRes 3DS was re-introduced in January due to customer request. At the same time we also…
Mitchell – If you are using the retail version, under Generic VGA you will find 320×200 256 colors. Enjoy – Jack Bayt – Vibrant
Doug – Seriously, Linne' and I are spending a couple of weeks in CO this summer riding bikes all over the place. Can't wait. Need to get rid of the winter blub first Jack Bayt
Doug – I was stuck on a couple of trips and to top it off, the modem fried. We hade a bad storm here, everything is protected EXCEPT the phone lines, lost 2 modems and another is acting very funny now. So, a made scramble for modems ended with "oh…
#Stealth VRAM 3DS driver
Message #36913
Paul – Just take a look at SE215.ZIP in library 9. If you don't want to download it, just call us or your local dealer. For 3DS, you can't beat our ProRes/3DS driver. It's not free, but as far as making your multi thousand $$$ 3DS program run like a…
COMPAQ CONFIG FOR 3DS
Message #36912
Don – Please EMAIL me your addr and phone, I have the patch program for the compaq machines and will send it to you. Jack Bayt – Vibrant
#glow inside glass
Message #36911
Mitchell. What graphics board are you using? Jack Bayt – Vibrant
Prompts are step behind
Message #36910
Carl – Thanks. Now that I go back and look at the bug list, there it is. How do you like the new driver? Jack Bayt – Vibrant
local bus
Message #36909
Steve – Now that we have finished up alot of loose ends here, it's back to the grindstone to crank off the new video boards. Won't be long now. Jack Bayt
#Ideal PAL 3DS System?
Message #36908
Doug – I know a couple that would also be interested in this… Jack Bayt
#Ideal PAL 3DS System?
Message #36907
Doug – We have tried to duplict the problems you are seeing. No luck. Herc also can't duplicate it. If you have the time, please show it to Greg. Jack Bayt – Vibrant.
3DS/Vesa
Message #36906
Mark – Of course, you could get the best right now. Fast display modes, nice usable materials editor, lots of true color support, colored mapping icon. No waiting. Just call your dealer, or us. Ask anyone up in the ASOFT forum. They will tell you. They work. Jack Bayt -…
#TIGA driver for AA
Message #36905
Hal – I'm glad that you like the 3DS driver for the NDI board. We have a new version, called ProRes/3DS that is a low cost upgrade from the OEM DLXpress drivers that NDI provides. Call our sales for full info, but a number of the folks up here are…
Mark – Sounds like a driver issue. What board, driver, etc. Jack Bayt – Vibrant
Basically, Windows enhanced mode and AutoCAD with co-processor boards are almost mutually exclusive (unless you are really willing to jump through hoops).
Russ – I would be VERY careful in this forum about using the term "photo-realistic" and "8-bit" together… Jack Bayt -Vibrant
Russ – But can you see your mapping icon? Jack Bayt – Vibrant
You are running into the famous 3DS FLIC viewing problem. What videoboard are you using (ATI or Diamond 24x or S3 I bet)
Yes, I read the artical and I happen to agree with it. In general, VL-BUS and EISA boards will not provide enhancement for 3DS over the ISA versions. Now FLIC playing is a whole other ballgame. Anything that can reduce the overhead of transfering large blocks of pixel data to…
Actaully when I'm refering to accelerated boards, I DO mean boards based on S3, ATI MACH 8/32, WD 90C31, Weitek P9000, IIT AXGA, 34010/20, 8514, XGA, DELL DGX…. you get the idea. Any of these technologies that provided some form of hardware graphics operations will help performance in the display…
Lee – Just got your message (about 9pm(?) here). I'll make sure that you get a call tomorrow (friday). Jack Bayt – Vibrant
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