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- >>>>> "Donald" == Donald Burr <d_burr@ix.netcom.com> writes:
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- Donald> These applications work under Executor. I believe there
- Donald> is a switch or text field in the preferences (Cmd-Shift-5)
- Donald> panel that has to do with detecting and handling apps that
- Donald> bypass QuickDraw.
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- "Refresh" mode is used to handle such apps. Executor has an
- "autorefresh" feature which checks every second or two to see if
- refresh mode needs to be turned on.
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- Donald> I should warn you though that performance for these apps
- Donald> is poor, especially in X windows based systems. Under
- Donald> E/DOS you can get pretty good performance if you have a
- Donald> video card that can do VESA 2.0 and linear framebuffer, or
- Donald> if you run UniVBE (helpful for older video boards -- it
- Donald> REALLY sped up my older Orchid board).
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- Yes, it will be very fast. To do this you need not only VBE 2.0's
- linear frame buffer, but also you must run Executor under plain DOS
- using cwsdpmi.exe. Windows and Warp don't implement the DPMI 1.0
- standard which we need to access video hardware more directly.
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- -Mat
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