First post, by smevans526
Dear All,
I am using a first generation IBM APTIVA (486-DX2) as my early nineties DOS machine. It uses PC-DOS 2000 and favours a 5.25" Floppy over a CD-ROM drive.
Anyway IBM integrated a Cirrus CL-GD5428 on the mainboard (1M of memory). The riser card contains only ISA, so I am stuck with a more than acceptable chip for my purposes. In fact, I thought that I would never need to worry about SVGA until I found realised that SIMLIFE can run in 800x600(16 colour).
It didn't load properly so I figured that I would try booting a VESA driver. Cirrus's driver will only install under Windows 3.1, which this machine lacks. Thus I experimented with UNIVBE.
An old UNIVBE version (2.0 maybe?) detected the chip put proved futile against the SIMLIFE's high resolution.
UNIVBE 6.7 claims that no SVGA compatible chip is present. I saw the CL-GD5428 listed as a compatible with UNIVBE 6.7. I tried some older versions, only to get something like 'unable to write to input file'.
While the correct answer to my question is 'Who cares? Play something better than SIMLIFE', I would still appreciate any feedback. Also note, I am aware that UNIVBE may not solve my SIMLIFE issues.
Thank you
