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 "Felix Miata mrmazda@earthlink.net to All 
 Re: Os/2 help 
 21 Apr 15 04:02:44 
 
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finalphilthoughts@yahoo.com composed on 2015-04-20 23:15 (UTC-0500):

> Wow. That may be above my skill level (in fact, OS/2 may be above my
> level). When I go into bios it states Speedstar hicolor version 5.00 from
> Diamond Comp. I take it that's my video card.

Diamond was a brand that didn't make its own video chips. You can try to
match that model up with a chip type off the internet, or open it up and
find the numbers on the card's biggest chip.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_Multimedia says the Speedstar used
various chips.

> Among the floppies that I have with Warp 3 are two or three that say
> "video drivers" on them.

If Phil is right, the Snap driver will work, and probably work best.

ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/system/drivers/video/snap-os2-3.1.8.zip
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