Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 08:14:34 +0600 (LKT) From: Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel X-Sender: root AT darkstar DOT grendel DOT net To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Win 2000 & Djgpp In-Reply-To: <38ADA8D0.51069657@americasm01.nt.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: dj-admin AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH] wrote: > Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel wrote: > > > That's not the fault of the OS, it is the drivers for the video card. I've > > > seen some drivers that could handle 640x480x32 windowed on a display running at > > > 1024x768x256! The color quantization was poor, but acceptable considering what > > > it was doing... > > Are you sure that this game was a DOS game and not a directX game which > > was running windowed? > > I am 100% positive. The normal DOS toolbar was there and Alt+Enter flicked to > full-screen. And the program did run in real DOS. It may not be using the VESA standard to acesss video modes. I say this becasue I still haven't seen a card which had the drivers to make it run VESA progs windowed. But Chris said that S3 cards come with such drivers. So I maybe wrong.. Grendel Hi, I'm a signature virus. plz set me as your signature and help me spread :)