MetaWINDOW - Support

Support

All MetaWINDOW products provide direct support for virtually every popular SuperVGA card and display mode available - monochrome, 16-color and 256-color - up to 1280x1024 resolution! Other graphic packages provide direct support for only a limited number of VGA chipsets or only selected display modes. Still others require users to load a VESA TSR driver to work with certain adaptors. MetaWINDOW provides total direct support for virtually every graphics card available - period!

MetaWINDOW also supports a full range of graphic input devices including: mice, digitizers, touch screens and graphic tablets. Integrated hardcopy functions allow you to output graphics to a wide range of dot-matrix and laser printers.

Accelerated and High-Color SuperVGA's
Optional MetACCEL and MetHICOLOR products add expanded support for “hardware accelerated” SuperVGA's such as S3 based cards (e.g. Fahrenheit-1280, Diamond Stealth), IBM 8514/A and ATI Graphics Ultra adaptors, plus new 16-bit/pixel 65,000-color “high-color” SuperVGA's. Accelerated SuperVGA's provide yet another quantum boost in drawing performance.

New graphics hardware and support capabilities are added to MetaWINDOW on a continuing basis. See the MetaWINDOW Supported Compilers list for a full summary of supported compilers and operating systems, and the MetaWINDOW Supported Adapters list for an expanded summary of supported graphic cards, chipsets and display modes.

32- and 16-Bit Protected Mode
MetaWINDOW-32 shatters the 640K memory barrier providing advanced support for 32-bit and 16-bit protected mode applications. These products execute entirely in protected mode eliminating time consuming real-mode switch delays. In protected mode, MetaWINDOW takes full advantage of the extended addressing, advanced instruction set and enlarged registers available for protected mode programs.

Broad Third Party Support
MetaWINDOW's power is also magnified by the largest contingent of third party accessory products of any PC graphics toolkit. A growing list of leading developers such as Accelerated Technology, Autumn Hill Software, Courseware Applications, Inmark Development, Integrated Systems Inc., Island Systems, Magma Systems, Oakland Group/Liant, Oxford Consulting, Ready Systems, WNDX, Zinc and others offer a wide range of extended products that further expand MetaWINDOW's power and capabilities.

Comprehensive Technical Support
MetaWINDOW comes with a 400 page softcover book which includes extensive illustrations and examples for writing graphics programs. For additional help, comprehensive technical support is available via Metagraphics web site, email, fax or phone.