[Patch] Plantronics Colorplus support

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JohnElliott
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[Patch] Plantronics Colorplus support

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Another old-world video card; the Colorplus is a superset of CGA, with two extra graphics modes (320x200 16-colour and 640x200 4-colour).
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Re: [Patch] Plantronics Colorplus support

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Thank you! Did you write it?
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Re: [Patch] Plantronics Colorplus support

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Yes (apart from the bits copied and pasted from the CGA driver).
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Re: [Patch] Plantronics Colorplus support

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Committed to rev 561. Thanks!

I removed composite colour and snow emulation, as far as I could tell the ColorPlus doesn't support either. If this is wrong, please let me know and I'll reinstate them.
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Re: [Patch] Plantronics Colorplus support

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Apparently snow was a possibility: "With Flight Simulator, the Paradise MultiDisplay worked perfectly, but the Plantronics Color-Plus board produced a significant amount of color snow on an RGB monitor".

When I was developing the patch, I tested against the 'Plantronics mode' of the Paradise EGA chipset in a PC1640, and that didn't have any snow.

Regarding composite, the original ColorPlus didn't have a composite port, but at least some iterations of the ATI Graphics Solution (which supports the Plantronics modes) had one.
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Re: [Patch] Plantronics Colorplus support

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I also would like to have the Hercules video card to be configured as Green or Amber, as in DOSbox.
Technically, its not a configuration of the video card, but...

Can you write a patch? I bet it would be very easy to do.
Of course, Sarah should approve this idea
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Re: [Patch] Plantronics Colorplus support

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Do you know change color Green / Ambor / White in PCem ?

I want to change color, green on Hercules Mode....
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Re: [Patch] Plantronics Colorplus support

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Right now, you can't.
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