On Wed, 23 May 2001 13:45:34 -0500, L.D. Best wrote:
> .... about Arachne.
> It handles high res graphics fantasticly well, considering how many
> different video cards and built-in video BIOSes that are out there.
> I have to use Win3.1 for some things ... in particular working with
> graphics files. But that's a challenge, because Win3.1 doesn't have a
> driver that matches my video card, and my video card didn't come with a
> driver for Win3.1 although it was supposed to according to the video
> card mfr's website [that's another disgusting long story].
> I crop, convert, flip, switch, whatever in Win3.1 ... but then I go back
> to Arachne to see what the finished product looks like.
> I wish there were a way that Michael or someone else on his xChaotic
> team could produce OEM drivers for Win3.x that would do the same great
> job the built-in drivers for Arachne do.
> I bet there would be a market for them, since the major video card
> people don't support DOS or Win3.x for their own hardware.
> And even the 'win' sites, where one goes to hunt drivers, don't support
> Win3.x ... even when they support DOS!!
> It sucks when you spend big bucks for a card that can handle what's on
> the web, and you can't use it because there aren't any drivers [outside
> Arachne] that work.
Why not just use Dos NeoPaint to do all that stuff to your graphics files
instead of that WinCrap software??? <vbg>
http://www.neosoftware.com/software/npt.zip (660kb)
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