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- From: pjb3@CUNIXB.CC.COLUMBIA.EDU (Paul J. Bodin)
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.notabene
- Subject: Re: Desqview & NB crashes
- Message-ID: <CMM.0.90.0.714276633.pjb3@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 02:10:33 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 19 Aug 92 17:05:33 EDT
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- Tom Dayton (John Thomas Dayton, Jr.) writes:
-
- > NB ran fine in Desqview/X for me, until I switched to an Orchid Prodesigner/e
- > video card. Now invoking NB causes the entire screen, not just NB's window,
- > to go crazy. NB won't even run in full screen mode. The only way to make
- > it work is to run it inside Windows 3.1, or from DOS. I've been assuming
- > that NB 4.0 will have more modern video drivers, and so will not suffer
- > from this problem. My problem is not a crash, because everything seems
- > to be working--I just can't see any of it.
-
- NB 4.0 recognizes a command line parameter that forces BIOS level
- video handling instead of the default direct video memory access.
- This should allow it to work in any environment that is IBM PC
- compatible at the BIOS level.
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