On 27 May 99, at 14:12, Elizabeth Boston wrote:

>         I attempted to run MS Works ver 2 on a new computer today, and
> while the program seems to work (I can exit by pressing Alt + X)
> the display is all scrambled.
>         I took the floppy with works and tried on two other computers.
> One, it worked on, another one it didn't. All three computers are
> running Windows 98, but the two that don't work have AGP video
> cards. The computer that it worked on, has video built on to the
> motherboard.
>         Am I right in assuming that the old program doesn't support AGP,
> Or should I be looking for a different cause?

  A few pieces of software expect to talk directly to VGA hardware, not only
not using a driver, but even bypassing the BIOS functionality provided by the
ROMs on the video card.  It's possible that WOrks is one of these, and that
the AGP cards you've tried don't invest a hole lot of effort in supporting
such access to the hardware.


David G

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