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- From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
- Subject: Re: DOS Windowed session using Trident Drivers
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.005940.4305@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Originator: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
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- Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
- References: <1992Aug31.213137.16223@ncsu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 00:59:40 GMT
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- MICAH ANTHONY WILLIAMS (mawillia@eos.ncsu.edu) wrote:
- >
- >
- > Hello all. Is there any way to get the Trident 800x600x256
- > color drivers to run DOS programs that use graphics in a window, without
- > suspending them? I can get text-based stuff like Manifest, DOS5 Editor,
- > and Norton Utilities to work fine, but Games like Bard's Tale 3,
- > Microsoft Flight Simulator, and GIF file viewers are suspended until I
- > full-screen them. They worked fine a window with the default 640x480x16
- > drivers, but that is not the case now. Is there a solution, or will I just
- > have to wait for Trident to release some better drivers?
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- Yes, that's the solution :-(
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- Tom J Parry.
- Your reality is a figment of my imagination.
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