From: "Chris Jones" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Win 2000 & Djgpp Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 02:53:04 -0000 Organization: University of Kent at Canterbury Lines: 45 Message-ID: <88l0hn$8f5$1@spruce.ukc.ac.uk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: stue20c.ukc.ac.uk X-Trace: spruce.ukc.ac.uk 950928759 8677 129.12.226.12 (19 Feb 2000 02:52:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news AT ukc DOT ac DOT uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Feb 2000 02:52:39 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com > > 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.