Aleph One Windows Driver Release Notes: For Sparkive
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This archive contains the Windows Drivers (ARMVGA.DRV & ARMSVGA.DRV), this 
text file (README), and a setup file (OEMSETUP.INF) which will allow Windows
to install the drivers for you. 

It is normally distributed as a DOS format disk, and to install the windows
drviers in the normal way you wil have to copy these files onto a DOS disk.
NOTE: the OEMSETUP.INF file gets truncated to OEMSETUP/I by being archived 
so you will have to rename it on the DOS disk. The ARMSVGA.DRV file is also
truncated by one character.

The enhanced Windows Driver provides a substantial increase in speed for many
common Microsoft Windows 3.0 and 3.1 drawing functions, by using the
Archimedes as a Graphics Co-processor. It replaces the standard VGA driver
VGA.DRV.

The Drivers supplied are:
 1. ARMVGA.DRV: VGA resolution (640x480, 16-colour) 
 To use the VGA driver, you will need !PC version 1.11 (1993.01.06) or later,
and your monitor must be capable of displaying mode 27 to use it in single
tasking mode. 

 2. ARMSVGA.DRV: SVGA resolution (800x600, 16-colour) 
 To use the SVGA driver you will need !PC version 1.22 (1993.11.09) or later,
and your monitor must be capable of displaying mode 31 to use it in single
tasking mode.

The drivers can either be installed manually as detailed in the manual (and
below), or you can use Windows Setup to do the job. We recommend that you use
Windows Setup, either during the initial installation, or after windows is
installed.


Using Setup when installing Windows: 
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1. Start to install Windows as described in the PC Card Manual, using the
   'Custom Installation' option. 

2. When you get to the screeen that displays your settings, do not choose the
   'VGA (version 3.0)' display option as described in the Manual, but go to
   the bottom of the list and select the 'Other display (Requires disk from
   OEM)...' option, at the bottom of the list.

3. Insert the DOS disk containing the Aleph One Windows Drivers into the 
   drive, as prompted.

4. Press return to accept the default path of 'A:\' unless you have put the
   files somewhere else.

5. Select the driver that you require.
 
6. Continue with the installation, supplying disks as prompted.
 
 
Using Setup after Windows is installed:
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You can change the display driver at any time by running Windows Setup either
from DOS (with your Windows directory as the current directory) or from
within Windows. You will also need to do this if you receive updated versions
of the Windows Drivers.

Select the 'Change System Settings...' menu item from the 'Options' menu, and
then proceed from step 2 above.

You will have to restart windows for the changes to take effect.

 
Manual installation:
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To install the driver, first copy the driver file (ARMVGA.DRV or ARMSVGA.DRV)
into your PC's \WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory. Next, load the file SYSTEM.INI (in
your PC's \WINDOWS directory) into a text editor. Find the line in the [boot]
section which reads

   display.drv=vga.drv

and replace it with the line

   display.drv=armvga.drv             (for the VGA driver)
   
or 
   display.drv=armsvga.drv            (for the SVGA driver)

Don't worry if your SYSTEM.INI file has something other than 'vga.drv' after
the '=' sign. The new driver will be used the next time you start Windows. 