Installation guide

ScriptWorks® Technical Note – Hqn028 – HQMulDev for 4.1 Page 11 Revision 1.4, 96.09.24

Additional registry setup for the Ultre Corp. AT cards

Those plugins designed for use with AT cards from Ultre Corp. may be used with both the

original version of that card (a full-length card marked ‘840’) and the newer ‘high-speed’ version

(a 3/4 length card marked ‘1960’). The driver needs some minor configuration to achieve optimal

output speeds and quality on both cards. The installer allows you to select which card you have,

and the control panel configuration applet allows you to switch between card types.

The Board Type value should be set to 0 for the 1960 card or 1 for the 840 card.

If you are using an 840 card and Board Type is set to 0 you may see corrupt output, often it

appears that scan-lines are repeated, forming ‘smears’ down the film.

If you are using a 1960 card and Board Type is set to 1 then you won’t be achieving maximum

output efficiency.

If you wish to configure the value manually you should use regedt32. Please note that you should

exercise extreme care when using regedt32 as entering incorrect values can damage your NT

installation.

Start regedt32.

The installer will have created a sub key called

\\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\uat<tag>\0

You should create a value within that key called BoardType, of type REG_DWORD. This should

be 0 for the 1960 card or 1 for the 840 card. The default (if no value is entered in the registry) is 0.

Hardware settings

Please note: The information on HighWater and Ultre Corp. card hardware settings is taken from

the documentation supplied by the card vendors. It is provided here for your convenience only

and is not warranted correct by Harlequin. Please contact HighWater Ltd or Ultre Corp. Inc. if

you require additional assistance when using interface cards manufactured by them.

HighWater ISA interface cards

NOTE: Memory addresses have different formats for Windows NT and Windows 3.1/95.

Addresses for Windows NT should have 4 zeros, whilst those for Windows 3.1 and 95 should

have only three. In the lists below this will be shown as, e.g. D000(0). In that example you

should use D0000 for Windows NT or D000 for Windows 3.1 and Windows 95.

HighWater card default settings

IO port 320

Memory address D000(0)

IRQ 9

These settings mean that you cannot use more than one card in the same machine at the same

time if you use the default configuration. 3Com ethernet cards may need to be switched to use

IO port 300 to avoid conflict with the HighWater cards.

HighWater appear to have designed these cards for use with bus speeds of 8.33 MHz and they

only recommended them for use at that speed. Many PCs built in the last few years allow the

bus speed to be adjusted in the BIOS setup, and default to higher speeds. If you see problems

such as stripes along the film or a second ‘ghost’ copy of the image by the side of the correct

image then you should check the bus speed and, if necessary, change it to 8.33 MHz.

This section is relevant only with plugins supplied with ScriptWorks 4.1r0 (Sept ’96) and later.