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Re: PC podule and OS4.39

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On 21 Jan, 23:12, Andrew Wickham <ajw9...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.acorn.extra-cpu/index/browse_...
>
> In the thread linked above, I asked for experience of running a PC
> podule (specifically the last generation "Elvis" version") under RISC
> OS 4.  For some reason, Google Groups won't let me reply to that
> thread.
>
> With the Kinetic disabled, !PC (version 2.06e, which I think was the
> last podule software) gets as far as booting DOS, but thereafter there
> seems to be a graphics problem in that something as apparently simply
> as a directory listing produces random colours (largely black where
> white text should be!).  If the podule ran OK in a RiscPC, this is not
> (only) a VIDC20 vs VIDC1 issue, though I have not yet experimented
> with "mode" commands in autoexec.bat or tried a clean DOS
> installation.
>
Booting DOS 6.22 with no autoexec.bat or config.sys files, I get a
screen-worth of normal text (white-on-black).  Commands that cause the
screen to scroll produce mostly black-on-black text, with the odd
green, brown or blue character.  But if I "cls" then (say) "dir", the
first screen-worth is legible white-on-black.  So it is a scrolling
display that mangles the colour scheme.  I ought to try again after
configuring the RiscPC to start up in mode 31 or another old wimpmode,
but any thoughts in the meantime welcome.

Andrew

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