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> Tim Tyhurst wrote: > > > > > I've upgraded the OS on my ThinkPad 360PE to Win95 now, and have > > > everything working, including Pen Services 2.0. (Boy, I kind of like > > > the old pen services better...kind of miss the gestures and so forth). > > > > I'd be interested in hearing of any success you have in running with 256 > > colour drivers and Pen Services 2.0. My experience with my 750P are > > Are you teasing me? Your experience with your 750P are WHAAAT? :) Oops, sorry about that -- deleted one line too many. Anyway, what I meant to say was, "My experiences with my 750P are virtually identical to what you have reported." > Well, as I said, I have everything working. I've just finished spending > a couple MORE hours trying to find native Win95 drivers for the WD90C24 > chipset (video). This notebook has 1MB RAM, so it shouldn't have any > problems showing 256 colors, but the native Win95 drivers only work > correctly in 16 color mode. You have to load an external driver called > VESA.EXE (which you can get from Western Digital and ibm.com and > probably other places). VESA.EXE is a DOS TSR, so it's a 16-bit thunk > and is s-l-o-w! I haven't researched this, but I was under the impression that the VESA TSR just provides some extensions so that the WD driver knows how to set up the video mode. I don't think it's actually used by the driver after initialization. In any case, I used it for a couple of years on a 360Cs and found the 256 colour performance to be perfectly adequate. My guess was that it's the pen extensions (in particular the inking code) that is the problem. I presume it's optimized for the VGA 4bbp palette, since that would be the most common. Not many Pen devices support 8 bit colour. > Only problem is, all of this really dates the system! I'll bet you can > run Win98 just fine on the 360 and probably 750 if you're willing to > give up the pen, but that's the whole point! :) I actually tried Beta 1 on my 750P. It ran, although it was pretty slow. (This is with 36 megs of memory, too). I think that the quoted minimum for Win98 is going to be a 486 DX2/66, though. tim