dual-headed developing

if u use win98, u need a driver especially for win98 with multiscreen support (no win95 driver!). e.g. its impossible to get multiscreen with my elsa winner1000 PCI. I bought an old ATI mach64 (they have drivers for mulitscreen), now its working

I''ve never seen a graphics card that has a printerport on it...

My suggestion would be to get two graphics cards that have Windows 98 specific drivers or a card that has two heads - like the Matrox G400 DualHead (no need for second monitor if you have a tv with a video in as it comes with a SVGA -> Composit video / SVideo converter. )

no... both of you misunderstood me...

i don''t want to do dual-screen SVGA stuff...

back in old dos days, there was the possibility
to use a (S)VGA card (in VLB or PCI Slot) and
a Hercules/Mono Card (ISA) at the same time....

(the Hercules cards have often printer-ports
on them, this was the standart config for 8086 computers)

This combination worked for years under dos and my 486
but it doesnt work now....

I did not misunderstand you, and I do not think silvero did, but we are all right, each of us is saying the same thing.

1. You can use a mono card under windows 98, I just do not know how to set it up.

2. What memory address are you using to output to (IIRC it''s B000:0000, I loved coding in asm back then....)

3. Does windows see the second card? is it listed on the settings tab of the desktop properties? is the monitor enabled.

The last mono card I used was in a 286 (yes that''s right a 286 or was it an 8088 / 8086, nevermind..) and I did not notice a printer port on it, but then again I did not have my head around the back mush ethier.

Back to the points about SVGA multi monitor it''s better than you think (I use a TV as my second monitor) as you can have the IDE on the second monitor and step though your code line by line and look at variables that you are not outputing to the second mono monitor.

I take it your following the Dual monitor debugging that is on this site (IIRC Andre LaMoth wrote the article), if not look it up it might help you.

This is as far as my understanding of hardware goes, I''m now more of a software person than hardware, i used to love tinkering around with the innards of PC''s when I left school.