Magenta Stripe Appears At The Left/Right Of The Screen When Running SE100DOS.EXE

Magenta Stripe Appears At The Left/Right Of The Screen When Running SE100DOS.EXE.

Problem:

A magenta stripe appears at the left/right of the screen when running SE100DOS.EXE. This problem persists even though the user has executed SE100SET.EXE to adjust and save the alignment correctly. The reason is SE100DOS.EXE runs default at 640 x 480 in 256 colors mode; however, the SE100SET.EXE program runs default at 640 x 480 in 16 colors mode. This is caused by different methods of implementing the color scheme by different VGA card vendors.

Solution

The problem can be resolved adding a "/G1" parameter to the command line when executing SE100SET.EXE. For example:

SE100SET.EXE /G1

This will instruct the SE100SET program to make adjustment/alignment in 640 x 480 in 256 color mode. Make the necessary adjustment and alignment, save the setting, exit the SE100SET program and execute SE100DOS.EXE. The alignment should be correct this time.

Similarly, the user can type "SE100SET /?" to see a complete list of other resolutions and color schemes supported by SE100SET in DOS mode.