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echo: apogee
to: JOE SIEGLER
from: CARL WARING
date: 1997-06-03 00:38:00
subject: Duke 3D Screen Modes and stuff

Well Howdy Doody Joe!
Your comments would be appreciated when you have a moment 8-)
I have just bought myself an upgrade to an AMD K5 133 with 16mb RAM. This has 
enabled me to play in 800x600 mode which I love. However, I decided to have a 
play with the .CFG file (after backing it up first, of course ). I came 
accross the following:
;ScreenMode
; - Chained - 0
; - Vesa 2.0 - 1
; - Screen Buffered - 2
; - Tseng optimized - 3
; - Paradise optimized - 4
; - S3 optimized - 5
; - RedBlue Stereo - 7
; - Crystal Eyes - 6
Normally, this is set to 1 for VESA mode. However, I thought I'd see what the 
other modes did. 
As I have a Cirrus Logic Card I ignored 3-5. 6 and 7 crash out before the 
game has loaded (ie whilst still in text mode). BTW What is 'Crytal Eyes' 
anyway? 
Option 2 is truly amazing. It's as smooth as 320x200 but in full hi-res mode. 
Wow!
As these features aren't documented anywhere, I have to ask: Is there 
anything else you haven't told us about? 
BTW It's my birthday at the end of this month. I'm looking forward to playing 
the new levels :-)
TTFN.................
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email carl.waring@emarkt.com
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