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Programs that use Plantronics Graphics??

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shawn510

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Hello,
In my XT clone I have the Tandy "dual-video" card that is configurable for either mono or CGA. The unusual thing about this card is that it supports the Plantronics Colorplus 16 color modes on the CGA side. (why they include Colorplus support and not T1000 graphics, I have no idea)

Thant's neat and all but I don't seem to have any software on hand that uses that mode. Do you guys know of any software that takes advantage of this mode? Thanks!
 
shawn510 said:
Hello,
In my XT clone I have the Tandy "dual-video" card that is configurable for either mono or CGA. The unusual thing about this card is that it supports the Plantronics Colorplus 16 color modes on the CGA side. (why they include Colorplus support and not T1000 graphics, I have no idea)

Thant's neat and all but I don't seem to have any software on hand that uses that mode. Do you guys know of any software that takes advantage of this mode? Thanks!
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You have the demos that came with the actual Plantonics Colour+, but finding some of those may be a little difficult.
 
per said:
You have the demos that came with the actual Plantonics Colour+, but finding some of those may be a little difficult.
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Kinda what I thought. It seems that the Colorplus card didn't get much support.
 
shawn510 said:
Kinda what I thought. It seems that the Colorplus card didn't get much support.
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I had some contact with one guy with the demo disks, but he don't got the ability to transfer them to a recent computer. He is in the US, so i haven't asked him if he could send them over and let me copy the files to more recent computers.

Maybe I should try to contact him about it?
 
shawn510 said:
In my XT clone I have the Tandy "dual-video" card that is configurable for either mono or CGA. The unusual thing about this card is that it supports the Plantronics Colorplus 16 color modes on the CGA side. (why they include Colorplus support and not T1000 graphics, I have no idea)
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Because emulating the Tandy modes would necessitate taking some of the main system memory for the video. The Colorplus doesn't have the 160x200x16 mode, either.

bear said:
ISTR that ZSoft's PC Paintbrush supported the plantronics modes.
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Lotus 123 also supports it. I believe Wordperfect might, but I can't remember for sure.
 
Thanks all! Downloading GEM, and I'll be on the lookout for more. I didn't realize how much different it is from T1k graphics.
 
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Oldest ATI GraphicsWonder might do the same too

Oldest ATI GraphicsWonder might do the same too

If I remember correctly, the oldest ATI GraphicsWonder CGA card, with the connector for piggy-backing the Game/Parallel/Serial option, also did the Plantronics modes.

It could also do composite (via a Phono-Plug to 9-Pin-D connector).

It could also do Mono and grey-scale graphics on monochrome monitors - using switches.
 
BlueofRainbow said:
If I remember correctly, the oldest ATI GraphicsWonder CGA card, with the connector for piggy-backing the Game/Parallel/Serial option, also did the Plantronics modes.

It could also do composite (via a Phono-Plug to 9-Pin-D connector).

It could also do Mono and grey-scale graphics on monochrome monitors - using switches.
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That's correct, but in fact, all versions of the ATI "Small Wonder" Graphics Solution cards supports all of that.

I got a Version 2, and it does say it's plantonics color+ compatible.
 
Trixter said:
I believe a few Taito games support this card in 320x200x16 mode, such as Operation Wolf, Qix, and others.
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Necro-correcting myself: Turns out they support a superset EGA mode that allows you to choose 16 of the available 64 EGA colors while in 320x200 mode. Screenshot attached for verification:

wolf_000.jpg
 
Interesting. Thank you. I'll try the sierra-sc0-games, the gem-driver and zsoft-paintbrush on my europc with cga and 15" tft via mce-adapter :)
 
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