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PC Format - Issue 5 Feburary 1992 - Disk 1.ima
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A NOTE TO DESQVIEW, OS/2, AND WINDOWS USERS
Users of windowing, multi-tasking environments will probably encounter
difficulties in coaxing egaint to perform properly (i.e., as it would on
machine running "just" MS-DOS). This is due to the fact that egaint
does some "greedy" things with the EGA/VGA display (like using both of
the available two video pages and changing the palette).
I have personally witnessed attempts at running egaint on both OS/2 and
Windows/386-equipped systems: the results, I am pleased to report, are,
for lack of a better term, amusing.
Windows/386 will spit out several seemingly angry messages, hemming and
hawing about how egaint is an "exclusive" application (among other
things). Once finally into egaint (with all other applications idling),
I discovered that Windows/386 had commandeered the EGA/VGA palette,
producing interesting results.
OS/2, on the other hand, runs egaint fine (albeit not in a little
window); I seem to recall it being called a "DOS box" or something along
those lines. A warning: do not exit back into OS/2 while egaint is
still running, because OS/2 will commandeer one of the video pages
(without restoring it to its previous state), producing an almost
psychedelic effect upon return (if your machine is fast enough).
As for DESQview, I've only received a report that the two are not very
compatible.
Later versions of egaint will probably malfunction in exactly the same
way, as I will refuse to support multi-tasking environments such as
DESQview and OS/2 as long as I don't possess copies of DESQview and OS/2
(sounds reasonable, right?). As for Windows/386, it will never be
supported because it runs at an intolerably slow pace on my computer (a
16 MHz 80386 machine).