John D. Bullough wrote:
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> I've assembled my old 486-66 system with MSDOS 6.22 and a 14.4K modem,
> and installed Arachne 1.66, configured to run with the bizarro videocard
> and monitor that I happen to have. Actually with Microsoft Office 4.3
> running on Windows 3.1 it's a fairly useful and stable little system,
> if you don't mind working in black and white!!! :-) But I have a question
> for y'all out there. Arachne runs better than I expected in CGA mode.
> I realize too that this mode is experimental. Is it still available
> in the latest version of Arachne? Has it changed at all?
Yes, it's still available and it has not changed.
It *IS* pretty awful tho. Is there any chance you could get EGA ?
> Every so often, though, a strange thing happens - some of the characters
> disappear on some web pages, then if I scroll down a hair, they re-appear.
> Again, I realize that CGA mode is experimental. But I am curious if any
> one knows - is this a function of the color of the characters and background
> of the web page? If they are black on white will they always be visible?
I think so.
> And is there a setting in Arachne to "force" it to always display web
> pages in a user defined color scheme, like is possible with Netscape?
Well, there is the Options|Preferences section where you can select HTML
background colors and text colors, but I don't know if they will always
dominate - try it. <G>
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