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From: | "Alexei A. Frounze" <alex DOT fru AT mtu-net DOT ru> |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: RHIDE problem with GFX modes is fakely SOLVED |
Date: | Fri, 12 May 2000 10:32:01 +0400 |
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salvador wrote: > > "Alexei A. Frounze" wrote: > > > Any thoughts on this? > > Yes: get a working BIOS ;-) I think BIOS works normally because RHIDE works w/o any crashes ander plane MSDOS 6.22. It must be a fault of both Windows and some code inside TV port used in DJGPP. > > Andris, can you say something about this? But please > > don't say it's a gfx card/driver problem. I don't really believe it because > > RHIDE is the only program with such a harmful bhaviour here. > > That's because you know nothing about the RHIDE guts! RHIDE uses the VGA BIOS > service needed to save the current VGA mode state. Do you think I can't figure out this myself? :) > This service have shown to > be buggy in many BIOSes. Wait a minute! Do you mean that if we save VGA state w/o changing video mode, restoring VGA state back to the same state dosen't work? [snip] > > The rest > > programs don't crash my Win95 during mode switchings or something. > > Now tell me how many of these programs can restore a (tweaked) 90x34 text mode > at exit. Oh man! I use 80x25 with 16 colors (BIOS mode #3) all the time. bye. Alexei A. Frounze ----------------------------------------- Homepage: http://alexfru.chat.ru Mirror: http://members.xoom.com/alexfru
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