VP/ix and the EGA

[Skip Gilbrech]

In article <612 at pcrat.UUCP> rick at pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson) writes:
>In article <226 at ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> jml at ivory.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Michael Lodman) writes:
>>Does some one know of or have an alternate character set for the
>>ROMEGA under VP/ix. The shipped set has got to be the ugliest
>>garbage I have ever seen on a tube.
>
>Agreed.  Under ISC's older version of VP/ix, I just copied the ROM
>that came with the Paradise EGA/480 into ROMEGA to get a better character
>set and support for the extended modes.  But under the 'new' version
>of VP/ix (1.10, I think), this doesn't work (locks up the computer).
>I would guess that the Xenix flavor of VP/ix also shares this misfeature.

I made some patches for annoying (to me..) features of (Xenix) VP/ix almost
a year ago.  It seems they are still required for the new 'uncontrolled'
release (no comment).  Putting back the old char. set is among the
patches.  I just copy the old char. set into the 'rom' once dos comes up,
which doesn't provide any additional mode support, but does get rid of
the ugly chars (otherwise they invade the entire machine...).

There's some additional (mostly timer-related) stuff which could probably
be used/adapted for ISC VP/ix (assuming it's needed), since it all runs
under dos.  You'll need Microsoft C and/or Xenix cross-development package
to compile the stuff, but I'll send a shar to anyone who sends me a request.
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Skip Gilbrech                           UUCP: uunet!pwcmrd!skip
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