Hi, ADI stands for Autodesk Device Interface and was the external graphics driver for AutoSketch/-CAD on DOS.
I'm not sure if SVADI supports VESA VBE, though (it says Super VGA).

Maybe you can get it to work in DOSBox* or PCem/86Box ?
- They offer various SVGA graphics chips of old.

Such as Paradise VGA, ET3000, ET4000, OTI-067, etc.

(* Yes, yes, I know. DOSBox is for games only.
But it's also good for testing purposes. 😀 )

Delete (or rename) the cfg file and configure Autocad again with standard VGA driver. Video cards usually had drivers for ACAD.

Pardon my stupidity but I don't really know how to "configure AutoCad" as you put it. I've been using a sort of image (not really an image but already installed) of ACAD12 so I just copy it to the computer and run ACAD.EXE. If I have to delete a config file and reconfigure, could you be more specific about which file to delete and then which file to run/modify? I can probably handle finding the autocad driver myself. I have a VGA Wonder and ATI is pretty easy to find drivers for.

Usually you don't need more then VGA driver. For basic stuff it's enough.

Well... it pretty much depends on your install. When you install it, it makes a batch file that sets some default directories and variables. It would explain your error as the driver can't be found.

Default acad12.bat could be:

1SET ACAD=C:\ACADR12\SUPPORT;C:\ACADR12\FONTS
2SET ACADCFG=C:\ACADR12
3SET ACADDRV=C:\ACADR12\DRV
4C:\ACADR12\ACAD %1 %2

In your install directory is file "acad.cfg". You can rename it, run acad and configuration will start.

To be honest, I read about this path business and did modify my autoexec.bat to point to an svadi driver that was a couple build numbers too old and ACAD still said it couldn't find it. I'm not sure if this is just a syntax issue or that ACAD is being picky about the exact file I link to. I did find what appear to be ATI drivers for my card which support autocad but I'm going to have to test it out to see if it works.

http://vetusware.com/download/ATI%20VGA%20Won … 01.0x/?id=13369

Superb! I followed kixs' advice about the cfg and now autocad works. It somehow "found" all the drivers I had on my machine and let me pick what I wanted.

The next problem was that none of the files it wanted to load during launch (like menus and stuff) were able to be located but that's just because it wasn't looking in the right place. I was lazy and just copied everything to the root directory and solved that problem.

1 problem left I can see. NO MOUSE. I'm not sure if this is supposed to initialize automatically err.... I know my mouse works in dos already but so far nothing in AutoCAD. How can I enable mouse control?

This shouldn't be hard to get it working.

When in autocad, type: config <enter>, you will see current setup (here you can change video driver too). Press Enter once and then select (4) - configure digitizer and then (9) to select Microsoft Mouse. Configure mouse if you want. In the end press (0) and save.

kixs wrote:

This shouldn't be hard to get it working.

When in autocad, type: config <enter>, you will see current setup (here you can change video driver too). Press Enter once and then select (4) - configure digitizer and then (9) to select Microsoft Mouse. Configure mouse if you want. In the end press (0) and save.

Hmm.. somethings is a little different. At the config menu I only have 7 options to choose from, not 9. Under the digitizer menu it only has ADI (Real Mode) or none and since I don't have option 9, I can't select Microsoft Mouse. Could it be under a different menu?

0 - Exit
1 - Show current config
2 - Allow detailed config
3 - Config video
4 - Config digitizer
5 - Config plotter
6 - Config system console
7 - Config operating parameters

Ok. Just digged out our familiy's AutoCAD..

If you delete acad.cfg (remove acad.cfg), AutoCAD will notify you about it beeing unconfigured.

After this, it will show you a list of video devices.

Followed by the digitizers..

And the plotters.

Last but not least, you're in the config menu.

From there, you can configure the devices you have choosen earlier.

I know our copy isn't the most recent, but it is AutoCAD, after all.

I hope it helps you a bit. 😀

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Ok. Just digged out our familiy's AutoCAD..

If you delete acad.cfg (remove acad.cfg), AutoCAD will notify you about it beeing unconfigured.

acad_000.gif

After this, it will show you a list of video devices.

acad_001.gif

Followed by the digitizers..

acad_002.gif

And the plotters.

acad_003.gif

Last but not least, you're in the config menu.

acad_005.gif

From there, you can configure the devices you have choosen earlier.

I know our copy isn't the most recent, but it is AutoCAD, after all.

I hope it helps you a bit. 😀

Sorry, I know why nothing was working. I didn't have the ACAD variables set in my autoexec so none of the drivers were being detected (I had only the default options available). Once I set the variable paths, all the options came up for digitizer and Microsoft worked. Thank you.