        #  README file for
        |
        | ELSA Allplan Device Driver Disk, Release 3.00
        |
        |        WINNER 1000
        |        WINNER 1000PRO
        |        WINNER 1000AVI
        |        WINNER 1000PRO/X
        |        WINNER 2000
        |        WINNER 2000PRO
        |        WINNER 2000PRO/X
        |        WINNER 3000-S
        |        WINNER 3000-M
        |        WINNER 3000-L
        |
        | Copyright (c) 1993-97 ELSA GmbH, Aachen (Germany)
        |
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        |
        | 01/15/97, gw



        Table of Contents:

        1.      Overview
        2.      Contents
        3.      Installation and Usage
        4.      Notes
        5.      Release Notes
        6.      Caveats / Known Problems



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1.      Overview

        The disk contains the ELSA WINNER 1000/2000 NGD graphic drivers
        used by Nemetschek Allplan/Allplot (DOS version).
        See section 2 for a list of files and their purpose.


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2.      Contents

        The disk contains the following files:

        README  .TXT - the file you currently look at
        LIESMICH.TXT - german README file
        DELSAWIN.NDD - NDD graphics driver for ELSA WINNER
        DELSAWIN.EXE - NDD graphics mode utility for ELSA WINNER
        DELSAWIN.FNT - default driver text font (=W_08X16.FNT)
        V_*X*   .FNT - some scalable vector text fonts
        W_*X*   .FNT - some non scalable Windows bitmap fonts

        '*X*' means 'width * height' of one text character in pixel
        All fonts are fixed fonts, which means every characters have
        the same size.


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3.      Installation

        please look at ALLPLAN/ALLPLOT installation guide


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4.      Notes

        None


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5.      Release Notes

5.1.    Release 1.00

        First release of WINNER 1000/2000 NGD graphic driver

5.2.    Release 1.01

        NGD_FONT_BOLD flag for bold text drawing added.

5.3.    Release 1.02

        Error with ngd_bitbltpg() function (calculating y coordinate)
        fixed.

        Error in ngd_getsysfontattr() function fixed (always returned
        error code NDD_E_GD_NOFONT).

5.4.    Release 1.04

        Error with ngd_bitblt..() funktions (on overlapping bitmaps)
        fixed.

5.5.    Releases 1.05 .. 1.10

        Adaption of NGD driver to WINNER PRO series (S3 Vision 864/964)
        Since release 1.07 circles look more round (shorter line
        increments).

5.6.    Releases 1.11 .. 1.12

        Error with video modes on WINNER 1000PRO and WINNER 2000PRO
        fixed.

        Filled polygon function changed driver internally.

        Driver now runs with WINNER 1000PRO with SDAC too.

        New WINNER boards supported now.

5.7.    Releases 2.00 .. 2.03

        Loadable text fonts are supported now. Please copy any font file
        youn want to use with the driver to the ALLPLAN NDD directory
        like
              copy <fontname>.fnt %NEMDAT%\nem\v100\ndd\delsawin.fnt

        The font may either be an ELSA Stroke128 vector font (scalable)
        or a Windows 2.x|3.x bitmap font (non scalable). The Windows
        font may be created by the Microsoft utility program FONTEDIT.EXE,
        which is shipped with the MS Windows SDK or MS Visual C++ Software.
        Sroke128 fonts can be created with the ELSA Font Toolkit.

        An additional program "DELSAWIN.EXE" is shipped now with the driver.
        This program detects an installed ELSA WINNER board and prints out
        all 8bpp videomodes the driver and the board supports. The programs
        output may be redirected to file. It has the same format as it is
        used with the ALLPLAN configuration program, saved in file
        "%NEMDAT%\nem\v100\ndd\graf.dat". The output of DELSAWIN.EXE can
        be inserted directely into that file. That is what the NEMETSCHEK
        ALLPLAN Graphic Configuration program will do in future.

        Supports new ELSA graphics boards (WINNER 1000AVI|2000AVI|
        2000PRO/X)

5.8.    Releases 2.04

        Supports new WINNER 1000PRO/X

5.9.    Release 3.00

        The driver is now based on ELSAs POWERlib high performance
        graphics library, which provides highest drawing perfomance
        and hardware compatibility to most of ELSAs WINNER graphics
        boards.
        The new WINNER 3000-S/-M/-L series (based on S3s ViRGE/VX)
        is supported now.
        Additional textfonts are now delivered with the driver.

        Note!
        Textfont DELSAWIN.FNT now resides in "%NEMDAT%\nem\v<num>\ndd",
        and no longer in "%NEMDAT%\nem\v100\ndd" (which is true only
        with ALLPLAN version 10). <num> is the current ALLPLAN release
        number.


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6.      Caveats / Known Problems

        None

