From: Daniel Basterfield (daniel_at_basterfield.com)
Date: Mon Nov 15 1999 - 17:31:57 EST
Rob White wrote:
>
> I have seen pictures of 730T's on the vertical stand (which I have) and the
> orientation of the screen is changed so you can use it properly. I have
> know idea how this is done. I can not use my stand because everything on
> the screen is in the landscape orientation. Can anyone help me? I also
> want to load it with Windows 95 or 98 but need the Windows Pen 3.1 stuff and
> can't find it anywhere. Does anyone have one of these babies running with
> Win 95/98 and pen capabilities? I want to put it onto my Win 98 network
> also. Anyone doing this? I really will appreciate any responses to these
> questions. Thank you.
>
> Rob White
I've been working on this, and so far have found the following:
Pen Services 1 (Win 3.1)
Portrait screen driver ROTATE.DRV from NCR31xx package works fine,
provided you get the 82KB ROTATE.DRV - there's also a ~45KB one on the
PS 1 packages which doesn't work. Change DISPLAY.DRV= in system.INI to
reference ROTATE.DRV; stick the file in C:\windows\system.
One of the other vendor PS 1 packages contains a Control Panel applet
which rotates the screen; need to track it down again...!
I only recently found a URL for the PS 1 TP730 driver, so I've yet to
get that rotated (I suspect it'll be harder than doing the PS 2 driver).
Pen Services 2 (Win 95)
Ah, more success here. Again, use ROTATE.DRV exactly as above, but you
may get some video corruption, and only 16 colours are supported (hey,
the screen is only a 16-greyscale device anyway...).
As to the digitiser drivers, I modified the standard TP730TE driver of
PS 2 so that it was rotated by 90 degrees.
I've yet to get the packaging properly sorted out, but you can get the
details and necessary files from
http://www.basterfield.com/tp730/win95/win95-4.htm
I have my TP730 in the cradle, running portrait-style all the time. Top!
Here's a screen shot I took - it's actually very usable:
http://www.basterfield.com/tp730/images/portrait-l.gif
Have a look around the website; it's nowhere near sorted out yet, but
it's got most of what you need to get Win95 / PS 2 going, and I'm
working on Win 3.1 / PS 1. If you need links to Pen Services software
etc., check out this (unfinished) page:
http://www.basterfield.com/tp730/misc/links.htm
Comments/suggestions welcome!
Cheers,
Dan.
-- Daniel Basterfield "He who dies with the most toys wins" OS/2 Certified Engineer Microsoft Certified Professional ----------------------------------------------------------------------- IBM PC110 web page: http://www.basterfield.com/pc110/pc110idx.htm
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