From:	"Chris Jones" <cj7 AT ukc DOT ac DOT uk>
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Subject:	Re: Win 2000 & Djgpp
Date:	Sat, 19 Feb 2000 02:53:04 -0000
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> > Well it takes about 12% of the CPU on my computer - I'd call that
> > quite intensive.
>
> A unoptimized MP3 player can also take a large amount of CPU. BTW what
> is this MP3 player in question?

Both WinAmp and MPXPLAY (for DOS) give figures of 12 or 13% usage.

> And also linux can acess fat32 partitions so you can read and write to
> your windoze partition from linux without any problems.

That's good - but is there any program for DOS/Win9x which will read a Linux
partition?

> IMHO win97 was the most stable of them all. I am thinking of
> "downgrading" my win98 to win97 because of stability problems :-(((

"Win97"?

> Could you please see whether your sound card has sound blaster
> compatibility (most cards do). If so you can get it to work with dos
> programs. Please feel free to mail me privately if you want more help on
> this matter.

Well the strange thing is it works fine if I boot to DOS or Win9x, but under
a Windows 2000 DOS-prompt it doesn't work at all. I tried both a Sound
Blaster Live and an ESS AudioDrive.

> > That's true, but until someone writes a DirectX emulator for DOS, and
> > printer drivers for recent printers into DOS word-processors, we're
stuck
> > with Windoze.
>
> I hope you install linux and give it a go.

I may well give it a try. Just been downloading RedHat, got the ISO of it
now. Can you recommend CD-writing software which can burn .ISO files?

> I think that you wont be stuck with windoze ever.
> (just maybe to play your directx game once in while)

I assume that means that WINE doesn't emulate DirectX then.

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