On 31 Mar 98 at 22:30, Herbert Graf wrote:

>   I am trying to get Win95 running on one of my machines with a
> hercules graphics card. Is this possible?

  Just to clarify:  Hercules is still in business, making SVGA cards.
But their first product was a card for the PC/XT that could do
black&white (black&green, black&amber) graphics on a TTL monitor.
Clones and imitations of this card were widely called "Hercules";
some had 32K of video RAM and some had 64K.

> I can't go to VGA because I need this machine to be seperate, and I
> don't have the extra VGA monitor, and buying one is not an option,
> all I have is the Herc monitor.

  "Different kind of monitor" confirms what we're talking about.  [I
generally buy VGA monitors used, for $60-120.  That might be an
option you haven't considered.]

> I have installed the herc driver (it's a 3.11 driver but it seems
> to work fine) and try to start the computer, but windows never
> shows up on the herc screen,

  I would not expect a 16-bit video driver to work with Win95, and
I'm somewhat mystified by "seems to work fine".  The reason you've
posted this is that it *doesn't* work fine, right?

  Do the initial POST messages come up on the TTL monitor?  Have you
set the CMOS to specify "Mono" video rather than "VGA/SVGA"?

> if I stick a VGA card in along with it all of the windows screen
> output goes to the VGA card, even thought there is a Herc driver.
> Now the image on the VGA monitor doesn't look correct, so there is
> something happening.
> Is there any trick to getting 95 to work with this card.

  In theory, such a trick could exist.  In practice, I don't know of
one; I'm pretty sure that installing a 3.11 video driver is not going
to do it.

David G