Date:	Mon, 21 Feb 2000 08:14:34 +0600 (LKT)
From:	Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel <kalum AT crosswinds DOT net>
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Subject:	Re: Win 2000 & Djgpp
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On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH] wrote:

> Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel wrote:

> > >     That's not the fault of the OS, it is the drivers for the video card.  I've
> > > seen some drivers that could handle 640x480x32 windowed on a display running at
> > > 1024x768x256!  The color quantization was poor, but acceptable considering what
> > > it was doing...
> > Are you sure that this game was a DOS game and not a directX game which
> > was running windowed?
> 
>     I am 100% positive.  The normal DOS toolbar was there and Alt+Enter flicked to
> full-screen.  And the program did run in real DOS.

It may not be using the VESA standard to acesss video modes. I say this
becasue I still haven't seen a card which had the drivers to make it run
VESA progs windowed.

But Chris said that S3 cards come with such drivers.

So I maybe wrong..

Grendel

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