From: "jan åge johnsen [iC]" 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 Lines: 29 Message-ID: <6i5ke1$lmd$1@o.online.no> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: ti36a02-0018.dialup.online.no To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Shawn Hargreaves wrote in message ... >jan Ã¥ge 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 ?