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This is an UNSUPPORTED beta driver for use with Windows NT 3.5.
This software will always remain a beta version because no further updates
are planned. It is, however, quite stable after months of internal and
external testing.
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Windows 95 Note
The Spectrum/24 EISA board will not be updated beyond this driver version,
nor will it be supported under Windows 95. Windows 95 expects a
user-accessible base MMIO address, and since the Spectrum/24 EISA board
pre-dates these requirements by several years and offers no MMIO interface,
it will not be possible to retrofit or upgrade it to run under Windows 95.
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Spectrum/24 for Windows EISA Windows NT 3.5 driver notes
Driver software for the Spectrum/24 EISA card for Windows NT 3.5.
All files located in this directory are compressed into a self extracting
archive using the PKZIP file compression software. No software is required
to de-compress these files. After your files have been downloaded, simply
use the following command to extract the files:
SPEISANT -D <destination>
Example: SPEISANT -D A:
The example above will place the unziped files on to your A: drive.The "-d"
option will extract the original directory hierarchy on to the designated
drive.
Filename Size Date Description of File Contents
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SPEISANT.EXE 307569 10-18-93| Spectrum/24 EISA NT Version 10/18/93
| This is the entire Spectrum/24 EISA
| for Windows NT 3.5 installation disk.
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Installation Procedures
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This disk contains the final beta release of the Windows NT 3.5 drivers for
the SuperMatch Spectrum/24 EISA display cards. Requirements for
running these drivers are:
- a EISA bus PC-compatible running the retail release of Windows NT
3.5
- Spectrum/24 EISA display card
This procedure is considerably different from the procedure used with
Windows NT 3.1. NT 3.1 used the Windows Setup utility to change display
drivers. NT 3.5 uses the Display option of the Control Panel utility.
- Turn your system off and install the Spectrum/24 card in an empty EISA
slot if it isn't already installed there.
- If you have just installed the Spectrum/24 card, make sure that you run
your EISA configuration utility to correctly locate the card in your
machine's physical address space. An EISA configuration file resides on
the Spectrum/24 OEM diskette.
- Turn your machine back on and boot up into Windows/NT on your VGA card.
- Make sure that you are logged in as Administrator on your system. The
install will not be successful unless you do the installation as the
system administrator.
- Insert the enclosed OEM disk into your floppy drive and run the Windows/NT
setup program.
- Select Change System Settings from the Options menu and then
drop down the Display listbox. Select 'Other (Requires a disk from a
hardware manufacturer)'
- In response to the Insert Diskette dialog box enter '<drive>:\' according
to the drive letter of the floppy drive in which you inserted the Thunder
OEM disk. Choose OK.
- In response to the Select OEM Option dialog box (in which Spectrum/24 EISA
should be displayed) choose OK.
- When you come back to the Change System Settings dialog box choose OK.
- When the Windows/NT Setup dialog box comes up and asks you for the path
to the display drivers choose OK (it should already have the correct
drive specified).
The Spectrum/24 display drivers will be copied to the appropriate Windows
NT system directories and auxilliary files will be copied into a
"%SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\supermac" subdirectory.
After files have been copied, a program manager group will be created
to contain icons for the utility programs provided.
A hardware confidence test may be run by selecting Yes in the
MessageBox which will appear. Providing the board passes the hardware
confidence test a Resolution Picker program will be run. This program
requires that you select an appropriate monitor and resolution for your
system. Do this, save your changes, and then exit the Resolution Picker
program.
- When the Windows/NT Setup window reappears (after all the above actions
have taken place) select Exit from the Options menu. When you
see the restart system message to enable the changes to take effect,
shutdown and restart your system.
On restart the Windows NT system should come up utilizing the Spectrum/24
display adapter.
Utility Applications
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Also copied during installation are several utilities:
res.exe --> resolution picker utility
An icon for running this utility will have been created in
the Administrator's personal SuperMatch Spectrum/24 program
manager group.
Invoke res.exe to specify a new resolution and virtual
desktop setting. The new settings will take effect on your
next Windows NT reboot.
ntmoncal.exe --> monitor calibration utility
An icon for running this utility will have been created in
the Administrator's personal SuperMatch Thunder/24 program
manager group.
Invoke this utility to adjust your monitor's gamma and color
balance. Any new settings take effect immediately and on
every reboot thereafter until changed by the administrator.
gamma.exe --> monitor gamma adjust utility
This program is not installed as an icon in any of the
created program groups. It can be installed from or run from
%SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\supermac.
Invoke this utility with no command line parameters to adjust
your monitor's gamma values (ie: brightness of all guns or
each individual color gun). This utility is not as
comprehensive as ntmoncal.exe but provides a quick adjust
capability.
Each user may have their own gamma adjustment upon login to
their account by adding gamma.exe as an icon in their Startup
program manager group with the following commandline:
%SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\supermac\gamma.exe load
When run from the Startup group with the 'load' commandline
option, gamma.exe loads the user's gamma adjust values from
the user's registration database, loads the adjusted
color palette to the display card, and then terminates.
Fixed or Enhanced Since Last Release
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1. Fixed up problem with Resolution Picker screen centering.
Technical Support
For technical support for this product, you may call Radius Technical Support
at: 1-408-541-5700.
For priority access to technical support for assistance with this product,
please call Radius Technical Support at: 1-900-555-6275, or 1-800-573-6275.
Also virtually all of the information about this product, including
compatibility and common questions and answers can be found, free of charge,
on our technical faxback system at (800) 332-9225.
