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From: AwlSome Auger on 12 Feb 2010 23:54 On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:36:28 -0700, Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)My-Web-Site.com> wrote: >It's coming back :-) > >Use GENDRIVE.EXE to roll your own video driver. > > ...Jim Thompson That has nothing to do with it.
From: AwlSome Auger on 13 Feb 2010 00:46 On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:53:59 -0800, AwlSome Auger <AwlSomeAuger(a)BuyOneGetOneFree.org> wrote: >On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:21:45 -0600, John Fields ><jfields(a)austininstruments.com> wrote: > >>OK, dammit, I'm stuck... >> >>I'm using, and dearly love, old ORCAD SDT in an XP DOS window, and it >>works great. >> >>But... >> >>While ORCAD allows almost all of SDT's features' colors to be changed, >>the black background cannot, as far as I can tell. >> >>I'd like to change it to white. >> >>Clue, please? >> >>JF > > There was nothing when executed with "Orcad.exe -c"? That should bring >up the config menu selections, but I do not know if that is where it is >at either. > > I'll fire it up and check a bit. Err... that was "Draft.exe" and "/c" not "-c". Anyway, the color table does not allow the Bkgd to be changed. It is hard coded. I suppose it is possible to modify a driver if one knew how they were compiled, which we do not. What is wrong with black? My favorite console color scheme in Linux is Green on Black. :-)
From: Boris Mohar on 13 Feb 2010 08:41 On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:46:20 -0800, Joerg <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> wrote: >John Fields wrote: >> OK, dammit, I'm stuck... >> >> I'm using, and dearly love, old ORCAD SDT in an XP DOS window, and it >> works great. >> >> But... >> >> While ORCAD allows almost all of SDT's features' colors to be changed, >> the black background cannot, as far as I can tell. >> >> I'd like to change it to white. >> >> Clue, please? >> > >Strictly from memory, way back: IIRC the only way one could change the >background color on SDT was to muck with the table stored in the >graphics card. But having anything other than black was frowned upon by >Orcadians back then, right up there with parking a Harley next to a >Goldwing ;-) > >I don't know if this is still possible in a DOS window. Ask in http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OldDosOrcad/ They did a lot of work on new drivers. -- Boris
From: Pieyed Piper on 13 Feb 2010 09:32 On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 08:41:20 -0500, Boris Mohar <borism_void_(a)sympatico.ca> wrote: >On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:46:20 -0800, Joerg <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> wrote: > >>John Fields wrote: >>> OK, dammit, I'm stuck... >>> >>> I'm using, and dearly love, old ORCAD SDT in an XP DOS window, and it >>> works great. >>> >>> But... >>> >>> While ORCAD allows almost all of SDT's features' colors to be changed, >>> the black background cannot, as far as I can tell. >>> >>> I'd like to change it to white. >>> >>> Clue, please? >>> >> >>Strictly from memory, way back: IIRC the only way one could change the >>background color on SDT was to muck with the table stored in the >>graphics card. But having anything other than black was frowned upon by >>Orcadians back then, right up there with parking a Harley next to a >>Goldwing ;-) >> >>I don't know if this is still possible in a DOS window. > > Ask in http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OldDosOrcad/ They did a lot of work >on new drivers. Hell, all we need is a decent set of VESA drivers. I have trouble even getting any of my 800x600 drivers working on any of these newer cards, so even VGA must be "in a different place" in the card's set-up. VESA modes always seem to work these days. So they need a vesa driver set. Tango PCB has one. Pretty nice too. I run both that and Orcad from within DOSBox, which does allow full screen sessions, even in Windows 7. Any hardware hooks that are needed (even local machine stuff) can be attached to via NET USE type commands if direct methods pose problems.
From: Joerg on 13 Feb 2010 16:05
MooseFET wrote: > On Feb 12, 1:21 pm, John Fields <jfie...(a)austininstruments.com> wrote: >> OK, dammit, I'm stuck... >> >> I'm using, and dearly love, old ORCAD SDT in an XP DOS window, and it >> works great. >> >> But... >> >> While ORCAD allows almost all of SDT's features' colors to be changed, >> the black background cannot, as far as I can tell. >> >> I'd like to change it to white. >> >> Clue, please? >> > > I just looked in the ESP version and there is no background color > setting. > I don't have a working copy of the pre ESP version to check. In SDT it could not be changed. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ "gmail" domain blocked because of excessive spam. Use another domain or send PM. |