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From: Esa A E Peuha <esa DOT peuha AT helsinki DOT fi>
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Subject: Re: screen messed with grx
Date: 17 Feb 2006 02:12:54 +0200
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> writes:

> Jean-Pierre Le Rouzic wrote:
> 
> > When I quit a program that use GRX compiled with djgpp in a Windows
> > XP DOS box, with a Control C, the screen is mess up.
> 
> Consider yourself lucky you got that far.  DOS graphics apps will
> typically not run *at all* on XP.

That's not quite accurate; XP itself has no apparent problems with VGA
(and older) graphics modes and BIOS calls, at least as long as the video
card supports them.  SVGA probably doesn't work, though.

-- 
Esa Peuha
student of mathematics at the University of Helsinki
http://www.helsinki.fi/~peuha/