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From: "Gisle Vanem" <giva AT bgnett DOT no>
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Subject: Re: DJGPP and Windows XP
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 12:03:42 +0200
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"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT gnu DOT org> said:

> Windows XP doesn't allow free access to the PC's hardware like DOS
> did, so any program that does direct screen I/O or fiddles with VGA
> registers will not work.

Direct screen writes work fine, but slower than under DOS off-course.
Fiddling with VGA registers is indeed dangerous. That's the reason
I stay away using RHide under Win-XP. It messes up the SVGA-driver
and screen-frequency in a major way so <Alt-Enter> does nothing here.

--gv