| Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
| Notice: | Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2 |
| Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5378 |
| Total number of notes: | 38326 |
HOW DO YOU GET COLOR ON THE BRIDGECARD ???? I finally got the Bridgecard (It was ONLY 11 months back ordered ! ! ! ) and I am trying to set the color window. Soo.. following the instructions.. (strange ??) it says open a mono window and type the mode cmd.. so I type "mode co80" and I get a not available option ... so it does not let me open a color window. Any ideas ????? I have not tried to set the jumpers on the card yet. Thanks in advance. george_a_very_upset_commodore_user.
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| 1822.1 | PCcolor | JGO::CHAPMAN | Thu Oct 27 1988 10:35 | 5 | |
On my system, I have two icons in the PC drawer, PCmono and PCcolor.
I can start up straight away in a CGA screen by double clicking
PCcolor. I don't have to use the co80 command.
Colin
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| 1822.2 | Yes but... | GLORY::SPATOULAS | George Spatoulas @FAC | Thu Oct 27 1988 15:48 | 9 |
RE:.1 Thanks for the response. I have the two icons too but whenever I try it freezes the whole machine. What are your preferences ?? George | |||||
| 1822.3 | Hardware problems ? | JGO::CHAPMAN | Mon Oct 31 1988 07:15 | 21 | |
My machine is on loan to a friend at the moment. I should get it
back tomorrow, so will drop a note then with my PCprefs settings.
However i don't remember doing anything fancy - in fact I don't
remember setting anything!
I have to say though that I have had a lot of problems with my card.
Curiously, I bought it exactly 11 months ago. It was available of
the shelf here (Holland), no problem. It has been back three times
with a variety of problems that caused guru crashes and (I think)
a few times just freezing. I had the memory on the board changed,
another time I hasd the chips all reseated, and another time I had
the chips on my expansion memory replaced. The last I couldn't
understand at all - I don't see how the PC side can see it, but
I tested it myself. Without the board, the PC side ran. With it,
the PC side behaved strangely as above, yet there was no obvious
problem on the Ami side. (The board is the 512K in the CPU slot
as I have an A2000). Bottom line, check whether removing any of
your expansion cards helps.
Colin
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| 1822.4 | Thanks | GLORY::SPATOULAS | George Spatoulas @FAC | Mon Oct 31 1988 14:45 | 11 |
Tanks for your comments. In the mean time I took out the card and I reset the Jumper switches for standard color. I also just puched all the chips on the board (I do not if it helped). The final result is that now I am in the color mode all the time. This is what I wanted any way. RE .1 : About your problems, it sounds funny but I had the whole machine freeze twice so far. Have you find out why this happens. george :-) | |||||
| 1822.5 | DATE/ TIME then-> MODE CO80 | CESARE::ZABOT | Marco Zabot-Adv.Tech.mgr-Turin ACT | Wed Nov 02 1988 13:15 | 10 |
I have the bridgecard installed since the beginning and had no
problems. I use the default switches settings.
When you select the COLOR PC, the first things the Ms-dos asks you
is date and time. If the system is defaulted b&w you won't see the
request that MUST be ansewred ( twice return ?! ) BEFORE sending
the MODE CO80 command. If this is ( was ) your problem can easily
be checked by openinc PCcolor doing what ever you like , close the
window and reopen BWpc. Now you should be able to see all the hidden
dialog ( date/time etc...)
marco
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