#XGA + ANIPLAY.exe
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I created a great presentation for my wife in AniPro (gee, I don't really think
it looks THAT similar to the tutorial, 🙂 ). At her office they have a PC
hooked up to a giant TV in the "presentation room", so we thought no problem.
Unfortunately, they are a strictly "Big Blue" office so everything is XGA. I
need to run ANIPLAY.exe in 640×480 mode to run the presentation. I have tried
everything with no luck. ANIPLAY thinks that the VESA.drv that came with
AniPro isn't even a real driver, so that is out, I tried loading XGASVGA and
XGAVESA TSRs and then using the SUPERVGA.drv, but it says the BIOS can't set up
that mode. All I have left is vanilla CGA and VGA at 320×200. surely someone
out there is smarter than me and has figured out how to use ANIPLAY at 640×480
with an XGA card. Any (quick) comments would be greatly appreciated, because
if I don't figure it out by Monday, we will be back to overhead projector
slides (yeech). Any ideas, guys? Thank you for your support!
Dennis
I think that the lasest version of the Universal VESA drivers might support the
XGA cards. It's worth a shot. Check out this file:
File Info for UNIVBE.ZIP
Section: HWare/OpSys/Video Contributor: 73754,103 Size: 390924
Submitted: 9/6/94 Type: Binary Accesses: 130
Title: UniVBE 5.0: Universal VESA BIOS Extension
Keys: SCITECH VBE VESA GRAPHICS HARDWARE
UniVBE(tm) 5.0 is the Universal VESA BIOS Extension (VBE) driver. It will
automatically detect the type of VGA card you have and make it compatible
with
the latest VESA BIOS standards so that all your games, applications and
utilities
will work correctly. IT EVEN ALLOWS YOU TO AUTOMATICALLY POWER DOWN
ANY ENERGY STAR (DPMS) MONITOR THROUGH ITS WINDOWS SCREEN
SAVER! Also includes many other useful features (see UNIVBE.DOC). Previous
downloads: 10,145.
[download time at 2400 baud: 25 min]
I DL'ed the file and XGA is conspicuous by it's absence. It looks like this
attempts to patch the VESA extensions for VGA cards. It even has a long list
of VGA cards that it works with. Unfortunately, XGA is not EVEN VGA – it is
completely different, so I don't give it much hope. HELLO – doesn't anyone out
there buy Big Blue and have some experience running ANIPLAY on XGA????
PLEASE!!
I used to have an XGA-2 card ( replaced it with an ATI MACH 32) – and you will
need to get OEM drivers from another company. XGA will not work with UNIVESA
and its VESA drivers do not work in 640x480x256 with Ani Pro.
Give a company like Panacea a call. They make drivers for XGA that work with
Ani Pro.
Judy
Thanks for the info – it looks like buying drivers from Panacea is the only
option, but since the presentation is in 9 hours, I guess wifey will be using
the overhead projector!
Dennis
I was hoping that one of the drivers you can download would have an XGA driver
in it. I would swear that there are XGA drivers that put the board into a VESA
mode. You might want to check the Graphics Support forum (GO GRAPHSUPP) for
that driver. Do a keyword search on XGA and see what comes up. Anything with
VESA support should do it for you.
If you can't find anything, Panacea has XGA support in their commercial
drivers. 603-437-5022 or 800-729-7420. Tell them you are looking for Autodesk
Animator Pro drivers for the XGA chip. I know XGA is supported by them, however
you have to buy the drivers.
-brian
Actually, I found a TSR in the IBM forum that puts the XGA board into a VESA
mode, but it isn't "really" in VESA mode, in that it doesn't handshake, so
ANIPLAY thinks that it has a 640×480 VESA mode, but when it tries to initialize
it the XGA board never responds that it's ready and ANIPLAY promptly bombs!
I'll look in the GRAPHSUPP forum, but at this point it looks pretty hopeless.
Thanks for the attempt!
Dennis