Old MS-DOS & WIN Software

[Dan Williams]

On 03/12/05, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
> On 12/3/2005 at 1:33 AM Jim Leonard wrote:
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> >Nope.  CGA was jettisoned in Windows 3.1 although you could copy over the
> >driver from 3.0 and get it working (but I don't recommend it...
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> Grazingly OT: Is there any formal Windows standard that requires a video
> adapter to have a BIOS extension at C000:0?  If one were present, say, at
> E000:0--or completely absent, would XP still work with it?
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I would guess that there must be standard place for windows to ask
"What sort of device are you" for plug and play. The rest would up to
the driver. I quite often find windows can at least identify the type
of device wether or not it actually works.

Dan