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- A NOTE TO DESQVIEW, OS/2, AND WINDOWS USERS
-
- Users of multi-tasking environments will most likely encounter
- difficulties in coaxing egaint to perform properly; 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 attempted to run egaint under both OS/2 and
- Windows/386: the results, I am pleased to report, are, for the lack of
- a better term, amusing.
-
- Windows/386 will spit out several angry messages, hemming and hawing
- about how egaint is an "exclusive" application (among other epithets).
- 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 to egaint (if your machine is fast
- enough).
-
- As for DESQview, for those running DESQview 2.2 or higher, it has been
- reported to me that the following settings provide optimal results:
- "virtualization" off, "writes directly to screen" on, "runs only in
- foreground" on, "displays graphics information" on, and "uses its own
- colors" on.
-
- Later versions of egaint will probably malfunction in exactly the same
- way, as I will stubbornly refuse to support multi-tasking environments
- which I do not possess.
-