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     >Just had a look at E/D 1.99l.

     >Looks good; certainly better and faster, but .... I notice a very annoying
     >effect on my video screen. Every time E/D writes a large area of the screen
     >(eg. a frame or window) the whole screen shifts a centimeter down, the top
     >centimeter blacks out and the screen moves up again. The whole effect looks
     >like one of these old TV sets that used to have sync problems. It happens
     >really in a flash; it takes perhaps 100 ms.

     >I tried another SVGA BIOS extension but the same effect remains.
     >The whole thing is *very* annoying. It makes using E/D 1.99l almost
     >impossible. Shame.

I have the same problem on a 486/66 8MB with an S3 but it seems as a big flicker
cos this video card is much faster than the Trident. Even when Lemmings starts,
the palette changes are very orrible.
I have also noticed that graphics is faster then on 1.99k but the browser is slow.


Frank