VAMPIRE 6553X DRIVER PACKAGE - RELEASE 2.52
December 30, 1993
WINDOWS 3.1 DRIVERS:
We advice our customers to use linear frame buffer drivers if hardware
supports linear addressing. Following notes are applied to these
drivers:
1. High in performance and continue to improve in features and performance.
2. One driver supports Multi spatial resolutions.
3. Pen compliance.
4. PCVideo aware.
5. Supports panning if driver resolution is more than the display size
of the panel.
6. Supports display switching using Control Panel Applet and/or with
hot key if OEM BIOS meets the CHIPS spec for display switching.
Note: We do not allow display switch if Windowed VM has focus.
7. Needs WINMEM32.DLL to be present in the SYSTEM directory.
8. Can not run in the Windows standard mode (WIN /s or WIN/2).
Altert: Some applications which assume 16 color driver as VGA planar
driver and renders the image in the planar format which is not
displayed correctly on our 4BPP packed pixel driver(LINEAR4.DRV).
LINEAR4.DRV : 16 Color Multi Res, Pan, Pen, BigCursor, DisplaySwitch
LINEAR8.DRV : 256 Color Multi Res, Pan, Pen, BigCursor, DisplaySwitch
W3LM600P.DRV : 800x600x16 Pen, Pan, BigCursor, DisplaySwitch
W3LM768P.DRV : 1024x768x16 Pen, Pan, BigCursor, DisplaySwitch
W3PM480.DRV : 640x480x256 Pan, BigCursor, DisplaySwitch
W3PM600P.DRV : 800x600x256 Pen, Pan, BigCursor, DisplaySwitch
R12.DRV : 480x640x16 Portrait Mode (-90/+90) orientation driver, Pen
DOS MODE DRIVERS:
AUTOCAD 10/11:
High performance 16/256 color display list drivers are supported.
Run DLDSETUP to select available color and resolutions for 655XX.
WORD 5.0 :
VGA600.VID - 800x600x16 : BIOS should support mode 70H
VGA768.VID - 1024x768x16 : BIOS should support mode 72H
WORD 5.5 :
VGA55600.VID - 800x600x16 : BIOS should support mode 70H
VGA55768.VID - 1024x768x16 : BIOS should support mode 72H
WORDPERF 5.0 :
CHIPS600.WPD - 800x600x16 High Resolution Graphics Driver
CHIPS768.WPD - 1024x768x16 High Resolution Graphics Driver
Note: MOUSE driver does not support extended modes.
WORDPERF 5.1 :
VGA600.VRS - 800x600x16 High Resolution Graphics Driver
- 132x25 and 132x50 text mode
VGA800.VRS - 1024x768x16 High Resolution Graphics Driver
- 132x25 and 132x50 text mode
Note: MOUSE driver does not support extended modes.
VESA : Chips VGA BIOS does not support standard VESA mode
except mode 6Ah; therefore, the TSR program is provided
that supports all VESA mode.
LOTUS123/SYMPHONY:
V132X25.DRV - CHIPS SVGA 132x25 text mode driver
V132X50.DRV - CHIPS SVGA 132x50 text mode driver
Note: MOUSE driver does not support extended modes.
Any questions regarding these drivers may be referred to:
Media Software Group
Chips and Technologies, Inc.
Phone: (408) 434-0600
FAX: (408) 432-9226
[UPDATES]
2.40 04/30/1993 Official release.
2.41 05/12/1993 Bug fixes in LINEAR16.DRV & LINEAR24.DRV for 535.
2.42 05/19/1993 Bug fixed for Switching in non-linear panning drivers.
05/19/1993 Bug fixed for hollow polygon in linear drivers.
05/19/1993 Bug fixed for Video For Windows on Panel.
2.43 06/07/1993 Remove 132 columns support in MS Word drivers.
2.44 06/24/1993 Fixed GetColorInfo ESC problem in LINEAR4.DRV.
06/24/1993 Fixed PowerPoint TranslateBrush size for 8BPP (icon corruption).
06/24/1993 Fixed text corruption in menu after GETRLE (LINEAR4/8/16/24.DRV).
06/24/1993 New mode support for 535 in VESA driver (DISK2)
07/02/1993 Non-linear drivers fixed for switching bug
2.45 07/07/1993 Linear 8BPP driver PowerPnt outline drawing problem.
07/07/1993 Linear 16BPP driver optimzation
07/28/1993 Removed clock restore from the VDD (DOS switching fix)
07/28/1993 Clock restore in W3LM*.DRV drivers after screen switch.
07/28/1993 Align dest in Scanline for in W3LM*.DRV drivers (Performance & 540).
07/29/1993 Linear 4BPP driver bug fix for MS Work
2.46 08/09/1993 Linear drivers ToolBook bug fix in StretchBLT.
08/17/1993 Linear drivers critical error handling.
08/17/1993 Linear 4BPP driver WinGIF problem fixed.
08/17/1993 Linear drivers CorelDraw 4.0 bug fix.
2.47 Internal release.
2.48 10/25/1993 All linear drivers supports mouse trails like VGA driver.
10/25/1993 Linear 4BPP driver is fixed for Fotoman color translation.
10/25/1993 Linear 16BPP drivers are fixed for switching.
10/26/1993 Now all linear drivers are PCVideo aware (535 & up support).
10/26/1993 Non-linear planer 1024x768 driver uses mode 75h to be
compatible with Japanese DOS/V.
10/26/1993 PanelQuality dialog box is removed from CHIPSCPL.CPL
2.49 11/03/1993 PriceWaterHouse fix for color translation in Linear8.DRV.
11/03/1993 Japanese Windows DPGRAB bug fix (MicroSoft fix this).
11/11/1993 Japanese Windows ModeNo conflict in W3LM768.DRV.
2.50 11/18/1993 65535 XR0B fix is re-enabled again (LINEAR4 & LINEAR8)
11/19/1993 Some bug fixes for 540/535
2.51 12/10/1993 Palette problem after DOS (LINEAR8.DRV).
12/10/1993 ScreenToMem bug (LINEAR4.DRV).
12/10/1993 FontSize bug fix (All Linear Drives).
12/10/1993 PanelQuality DLG bug fix in CHIPSCPL.
12/10/1993 FontSize bug fix in CHIPSCPL.
12/10/1993 Flight Simulator bug fix in VESA driver.
12/10/1993 Japanese DOS/V ModeNo Conflict (72-->75) fix in
WORD & WPERF drivers.
2.52 12/30/1993 Some performance improvements in DIB.
12/30/1993 Just-Grandma-And-Me bug fixed in LINEAR8.
12/30/1993 530 FCR Problem in CHIP31.386.
12/30/1993 Minor panning problem fix in LINEAR4 & LINEAR8.
12/30/1993 White edge on Solitare cards is fixed in LINEAR4.
12/30/1993 Pen Windows Inking problem in LINEAR drivers.
This is a bug in MS Pen Windows (drawing Polyline with junk PenWidth).
01/04/1994 Dirver sometimes pans on Big Panel (1024x768),LINEAR4/8 fixed.
WARNING:
Our linear 16 color driver is packed pixel as opposed to planar
like standard VGA. If driver is 16 color, some applications like
CorelDraw, PhotoStyler, Fotoman etc renders their image in VGA
planar format. These applications do not interpret Plane &
BitsPixel information returned by driver correctly.
This is not driver's bug.
Following table compares information returned by two different
format 16 color drivers:
VGA.DRV (Planar) LINEAR4.DRV (Packed)
BitsPixel 1 4
Planes 4 1
Colors 16 16
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