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- A NOTE TO DESQVIEW, OS/2, AND WINDOWS USERS
-
- Users of windowing, multi-tasking environments will probably encounter
- difficulties in coaxing egaint to perform properly (i.e., as it would on
- machine running "just" MS-DOS). This is due to the fact that egaint
- does some "greedy" things with the EGA/VGA display (like using both of
- the available two video pages and changing the palette).
-
- I have personally witnessed attempts at running egaint on both OS/2 and
- Windows/386-equipped systems: the results, I am pleased to report, are,
- for lack of a better term, amusing.
-
- Windows/386 will spit out several seemingly angry messages, hemming and
- hawing about how egaint is an "exclusive" application (among other
- things). Once finally into egaint (with all other applications idling),
- I discovered that Windows/386 had commandeered the EGA/VGA palette,
- producing interesting results.
-
- OS/2, on the other hand, runs egaint fine (albeit not in a little
- window); I seem to recall it being called a "DOS box" or something along
- those lines. A warning: do not exit back into OS/2 while egaint is
- still running, because OS/2 will commandeer one of the video pages
- (without restoring it to its previous state), producing an almost
- psychedelic effect upon return (if your machine is fast enough).
-
- As for DESQview, I've only received a report that the two are not very
- compatible.
-
- Later versions of egaint will probably malfunction in exactly the same
- way, as I will refuse to support multi-tasking environments such as
- DESQview and OS/2 as long as I don't possess copies of DESQview and OS/2
- (sounds reasonable, right?). As for Windows/386, it will never be
- supported because it runs at an intolerably slow pace on my computer (a
- 16 MHz 80386 machine).
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