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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 01:49:29 -0500
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From: Paul Derbyshire <pderbysh AT usa DOT net>
Subject: Re: Mode switch problem Win / Allegro / Trident 
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At 07:42 AM 2/23/99 -0800, you wrote:
>I have an interesting issue (not a problem) when running Allegro programs
>that use 16 bit hicolor on my 4meg AGP trident card:
>
>If I keep the dos box in Windoze's "window" mode - i. e. I run the
>particular program in windows 16 bit color, it switched to text then to the
>allegro program itself this works fine. Sometimes tho (varies between 3 or
>4 times) when the Allegro program exists it solidly crashes windows,
>requireing a  reset or reboot.
>
>Any idea why? THe whole shebang worx 100% if the DOS box is in full screen
>TEXT mode. The weirdest is - why does it work 3 or 4 times (sometimes 5 if
>I am lucky (!)) and then crash, and why not just crash the first time?!

Judging by the symptoms (solid hangs, irreproducible, inexplicable, coming
from well-formed code, and occurring with graphics in a windowed DOS
program) I would say you can lay the blame for this solidly at the feet of
Mr. Gates. <g>

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