From:	"jan åge johnsen [iC]" <jan AT narvik DOT crosswinds DOT net>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: can't alt-tab to windows
Date:	Tue, 28 Apr 1998 21:45:53 +0200
Organization:	Telenor Online Public Access
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Shawn Hargreaves wrote in message ...
>jan åge johnsen [iC] writes:
>> Ok, is it just me who is plain stupid and missed somthing or can't
>> you alt-tab back to windows 95 in djggp/allegro mode.
>>
>> I'm using the sound, graphics(640x480x8bpp), timers and mouse +
>> keyboard allegro drivers.
>
>This depends on Windows, not Allegro or djgpp. Tabbing works fine on
>probably 99% of machines, but you may have problems depending on your
>video driver and DOS box properties. You are actually lucky that it
>just refuses to let you tab away from the program: more often, Windows
>will switch away quite happily but then crash when you try to tab back
>to it :-)
>
>You may be able to improve things by tweaking your property settings
>for the program in question, but it sounds to me like your video
>driver just isn't able to store the DOS graphics state correctly,
>and there isn't anything that you can do to fix this.

uh, thats kind of sad ;(, I have a cirrus card 5464 (or somthing) 1mb, you
demo does not work eighter (alt-tab), but I get a sound from pc speaker,
however ctrl-alt-del works but chrases the program. I just wonder how many
others can alt-tab happily with you demo game ?

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