Alexandre Guimar=E3es wrote:

> > I was about to send an e-mail saying it doesn't work on my system, bu=
t
> then
> > I tried Compatibility mode: Win95, 256-color, 640x480.  Now it works =
on my
> > XP system.
>=20
>     No lucky with windows XP in portuguese even using compability mode =
:-( I
> just get a screen that seems to be at 640x480 full of wierd squares and
> yellow stripes :-(

First, try 800 x 600 x 256c. That is the graphics mode
it runs in.

If you still get weird graphics, can you confirm if
it is just the font? The program uses the inbuilt
8x16 hardware font in your video card, which should
work on any modern video card capable of VGA. Try right
mouse button to erase the data, should be nothing but
grey squares when erased.

I will email you a new version, that saves the entire
800 x 600 screen to a .GIF file when you exit. It should
faithfully capture whatever you have on screen, so you
can email me the .GIF file and I can see what you get.

I'm curious about the font too. I chose to use the
video card internal font, as it is reliably mapped to
all the ascii characters and should give you whatever
you type. Do you do anything special with text when
typing Portugese in older style programs? I have only
enabled ascii chars 32 (space) to 126, as people on
the list seemed keen to force ascii 7bit text.


>     What are you using to develop it ? If it is Turbo Pascal there is a=
n
> option for not making direct writes to screen memory. It I remember
> correctly you have to put the line " directvideo =3D false ; ".

I used C--, and not a chance with the sloppy video,
I use a custom graphics library using high speed
PC assembler routines communicating directly with the
video card. Many times faster than any possible windows
graphics. I can't do graphics under windows, no sane
graphics programmer would even want to.
"PLEASE MR. Windows, please draw my image on the
screen, if its not too much trouble, WHEN you get
around to it, that's fine the user doesn't mind
waiting 4 seconds for a screen draw" {grin}
I can draw that entire 800 x 200 screen 15 times
a second even on a pentium 133. Sigh...

>     If you have time please take a look at it. I was about to put the
> diagram for that nice 15 to 100v supply with 5 v output on the list. I =
will
> wait and see if I can put it in ascii :-)
>=20
>     By the way. The power supply works beautifully and i get no "hot
> components" even when running at 97 volts ! I will get the diagram with
> final values afterwards.

Excellent with the power supply! I'm really keen
to see how you handled the problems with the
higher input voltage and regulation/safety etc.
Maybe it's going to be suitable for 110vac use?
Or even 240vac with some mods??
:o)
-Roman

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